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Abu Salem guilty in Mumbai-based builder Pradeep Jain's murder
February 16, 2015
The TADA court in Mumbai has convicted deported gangster Abu Salem in the murder of city-based builder Pradeep Jain.
According to police, on March 7, 1995, Jain was shot dead by assailants
outside his Juhu bungalow after he allegedly refused to part with his
huge property to Salem.
Salem, another builder Virendra Jhamb and Mehndi Hassan are facing the
trial in the case. While accused Naeem Khan turned approver, another
accused Riyaz Siddiqui, who had also become approve, later turned
hostile in the court.
The court, in January last year, had dropped some sections against
Salem in the case after the prosecution sought for the same saying that
some charges need to be withdrawn in order to maintain cordial relations
between two sovereign countries -- India and Portugal.
Salem, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was extradited
from Portugal on November 11, 2005, after a prolonged legal battle.
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