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NEW DELHI, JAN. 28. The Central Bureau of Investigation has inched closer to bringing back Abu Salem, accused in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, with the Portuguese Supreme Court passing an order recently granting his extradition to India. According to a CBI official, the agency had moved the Supreme Court against the order of the High Court of Lisbon in July last granting Salem's extradition for trial only in minor cases of offence and not in the Mumbai serial blasts. After hearing the arguments, the Supreme Court of Portugal observed that the Indian Government had already promised that Salem would not be awarded capital punishment and granted his extradition for trail in all the cases in which he was involved. It is learnt that Salem's counsel had also moved an application challenging the High Court's decision but it was turned down. Now that the CBI has been granted his extradition, Salem is expected to move the Portuguese Constitutional Court to challenge the Supreme Court order. "It will take us some more time to secure his custody," said the CBI official. In case he moves the Constitutional Court and his application is turned down again, the Portuguese government would then decide his fate. Salem along with Monica Bedi was arrested in Lisbon in September 2002 and was sentenced to four-and-half years imprisonment on different charges. In July last, the High Court of Lisbon had also granted the extradition of Ms. Bedi on the condition that she would be tried only in the passport forgery case.
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