India, Aug. 7 -- The state government has informed the Bombay High Court that gangster Abu Salem Abdul Qayyum Ansari, one of the convicts in the March 1993 Mumbai serial bombings case, is not entitled to remission, a reduction in the length of time an inmate serves in jail.

In an affidavit filed on July 31, Aruna Mugutrao, superintendent of the Nashik central jail, stated that on July 14, the home department had passed an order stating that Salem was not entitled to remission and he should be released from jail only after serving his actual prison sentence of 25 years.

Salem was arrested in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 18, 2002, and handed over to India on November 10, 2005. He was brought to India the next day. Salem was sentenced to...