Mumbai: A TADA court has rejected underworld don Abu Salem's application to stop the trial against him in view of the termination of extradition order passed by Portugal's Lisbon High Court in September. While rejecting Salem's application the court said that there was no degree of finality in the termination of extradition order of the Lisbon High Court as the Government of India had challenged that order in the Supreme Court of Portugal.
Ordering that the trial would continue the court observed that till the time a finality was reached it would not be suitable to halt the trial at this stage.
Salem's lawyers had filed an application for halting the trial against him after the Lisbon court's termination of extradition order in September for alleged breach of extradition terms.
Salem had claimed in his application that the trial against him in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case cannot go on after the Portuguese court order.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in reply to the application had said that until and unless the Supreme Court of India or the Government of India pass an order to halt the trial the prosecution can't be halted, as the Lisbon court has no jurisdiction over the TADA court.
Salem, a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was extradited to India on November 11, 2005, after a legal process in Portugal that lasted for three years.
He has been accused in nine cases related to extortion, kidnapping and murder and is facing trial in all of them.
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