Mumbai, Feb. 19 -- Gangster Abu Salem, a convict in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking remission of his sentence and premature release, his lawyer Farhan Shah said here on Wednesday.
The petition, filed before a division bench of Justices Sarang Kotwal and S M Modak, is listed for hearing on March 10.
Salem in his petition said that as per terms of the extradition treaty between India and Portugal, he has already completed 25 years in prison and hence, he should be released from prison.
His petition further contended that he has spent 11 years, nine months and 26 days as an undertrial from November 2005 to September 2017. As a convict in 2006 TADA case, he has spent nine years, 10 months and four da...