By IANS
New Delhi : A city court Wednesday issued a fresh production warrant against mobster Abu Salem after the Mumbai police again failed to produce the extradited gangster in a five-year-old extortion case here.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjeev Jain directed the Arthur Road Jail authorities in Mumbai to produce Salem before the court Dec 19.
A special cell of the Delhi Police had registered a case of alleged extortion and criminal intimidation against the gangster and his associates Ishtiyaq Ahmed and Chander Prakash in 2002.
The three were accused of making extortion calls to a south Delhi businessman, Rajat Nagrath, demanding Rs.10 million.
An FIR in the case was registered at the Lodhi Colony police station in south Delhi on the complaint of Nagrath.
The other two accused, Ahmed and Prakash, are lodged in Bhopal jail while Salem has been kept at Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai.
Salem, who was extradited from Portugal on Nov 5, 2005, is also one of the accused in a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) case registered in 2002 for allegedly attempting to extort Rs.50 million from contractor Ashok Gupta here.