New Delhi: A day after Portugal's Supreme Court rejected India's case for Abu Salem's extradition, it now says that the CBI violated terms of the extradition by allowing the gangster to be tried under charges that can lead to a death penalty.
While the CBI is looking at legal options to counter the claims, the TADA court in Mumbai will on Wednesday hear Salem's plea to end the ongoing trial against him.
In a setback to India, Portugal's Supreme Court upheld an order which cancelled extradition of underworld don Abu Salem for violation of deportation rules by slapping new charges which attracted death penalty.
Rejecting an appeal by Indian authorities, the Supreme Court on Saturday upheld the order of Court of Appeal in Lisbon which had held that there was a breach of Rule of Speciality in the matter of extradition of 46-year-old Salem in 2005.
Reacting to the order, the CBI claimed on Tuesday that the Supreme Court has not cancelled the extradition of Salem and that only a technical point had been raised. It also said the order is not expected to have any repercussions on the status of Salem and on the on-going trial against him in India.
A spokesperson for CBI, which is the nodal agency of the country for extradition cases, said the Union Government was likely to explore the possibility of approaching the Constitutional Bench of Portugal challenging the Supreme Court order.
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