HC rejects Salem plea for immediate release: 'Not entitled to remissions'
MUMBAI, April 16 -- The Bombay high court on Wednesday rejected incarcerated gangster Abu Salem's plea seeking immediate release from jail on grounds of having completed 25 years of imprisonment, saying his attempt to include "earned remissions" to shorten the 25-year term was legally unsustainable.
The jailed gangster was "not entitled to any reduction of sentence" and he would actually complete 25 years in jail on November 10, 2030, after which he would be released, a division bench of justices AS Gadkari and Kamal Khata clarified.
Salem, convicted in 2017 for his role in the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai, which killed 257 people, was extradited from Portugal in November 2005, following the Indian government's solemn assurance that his pri...
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