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Non-bailable warrant against Abu Salem

Special Judge Prem Kumar issued the open warrant against the gangster giving unlimited time to the Delhi police to execute it.

The court also allowed the special cell of the Delhi police to take the Central Bureau of Investigation's assistance in extraditing the gangster from Lisbon, capital of Portugal, where Interpol arrested him last month.

The court permitted the police to supply copies of the first information report, charge sheet, the Central Forensic Science Laboratory's report on Salem's voice identification, audiocassettes containing intercepts of his conversations with associates and victims, and statements of witnesses in the case to the CBI to initiate the extradition process.

The Delhi police had arrested five associates of Salem, including a woman, in May this year for conspiring to extort money from a city-based contractor.

The accused, Pawan Kumar Mittal alias Raja Bhai, Sajjan Soni alias Babu Bhai (both residents of Delhi), Majid Khan alias Raju Bhai, Mohammed Ashraf alias Babloo, and Chanchal Mehta, were charged under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.

The CFSL report in the case had ascertained that Salem himself had threatened the contractor and was demanding Rs 50 million.

PTI

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