Abu Salem set to be sentenced by Mumbai court today

February 25, 2015 08:46

Gangster Abu Salem, who has been accused of murdering Mumbai realtor Pradeep Jain, is expected to be sentenced by a court here on Wednesday.

47-year-old Salem, who was extradited by Portugal after ten years, is a former associate of wanted terrorist and mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and is lodged in Taloja Central Jail in adjoining Raigad district at present.

In the Jain murder trial, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam had initially demanded the death penalty, which he later converted to a life sentence owing to conditions of the extradition treaty between India and Portugal.

Salem's lawyer Sudeep Pasgola argued that he could not be given the death sentence as it would violate the treaty between the two countries.

On February 16, the special TADA court had found Salem and two others -- Mehndi Hasan and Virendra Jhamb -- guilty of the murder of Jain, who was shot dead outside his Juhu residence on March 7, 1995 following a property dispute.

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