It’s bad news for 1993 Mumbai bomb blast case convict Abu Salem. The Navi Mumbai Commissioner has rejected Salem’s parole application seeking a 45-day release to get married to Sayed Bahar Kausar.
According to media reports, Salem under the Special Marriages Act, wrote to the Taloja jail authorities asking for parole to tie the knot with the 27-year-old Kausar Bahar on 5 May.
The gangster claimed that he married the Mumbra woman over the phone while he was on his way to a court hearing in Lucknow.
According to Times Of India, Bahar said that her image had been maligned already and that left her with no choice but to make it formal. Bahar even threatened to commit suicide if she was not allowed to marry Salem.
“We have got a letter stating Salem wants a 45-day parole to get married on 5 May. We are looking into the matter,” Thane police commissioner Parambir Singh told Hindustan Times.
It was only last year that the special TADA court pronounced the sentences for six of the persons convicted for their roles in the 1993 serial blasts. Among the six, Abu Salem was given a sentence of life imprisonment, having been convicted for conspiracy to commit terror offences under the old Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, for his role in transporting weapons from Gujarat to Mumbai.
It was in 2005, a Portuguese court agreed to the extradition of Abu Salem along with his then girlfriend and Bollywood actor Monica Bedi to India to stand trial for his role in the 1993 blasts case.
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