By IANS
New Delhi : Delhi Police Thursday was allowed by a city court to interrogate extradited mobster Abu Salem, facing trial for masterminding and funding the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, for his role in trying to extort Rs.50 million from a city-based businessman in 2002.
The court of Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur granted permission to interrogate Salem after the Special Cell of Delhi Police Thursday moved an application.
Police want to question Salem under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) act for his bid to extort money from south Delhi businessman Ashok Gupta in April 2002.
The application was moved as Salem was already facing the trial in the same court.
Salem, 36, was remanded in seven-day police custody by another city-based court Tuesday, a day after he was brought to Delhi from Mumbai.
Delhi Police needed him for interrogation over his role in trying to extort Rs.10 million via his henchmen from south Delhi businessman Rajat Nagrath in July 2002. Nagrath owns a firm in East of Kailash.
The two cases against Salem, registered under the MCOCA, were registered on the complaints of the two businessmen in 2002.
Following the complaints, the Special Cell had arrested three people, Ishtaq, Sadiq and Chandu Prakash, who had confessed that they had called up the businessmen at the instance of Salem.