Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday deferred a petition filed by 1993 serial bomb blast accused Abu Salem till August 8. He is one of the 123 accused in 1993 bomb blasts case.
Justice D G Deshpande and Justice S A Bobade adjourned the petition as the public prosecutor sought time to file a reply to Salem's petition.
Salem had challenged a TADA court's order to separate his trial from other accused in the bomb blasts case as it would violate the agreement between Portugal and Indian governments under which he was extradited last year.
He contended that according to extradition conditions, he was to face the ongoing trial and not a fresh one.
Earlier, last month, CBI urged the designated TADA judge Pramod Kode to separate the trial of Salem and his associate Riyaz Siddiqi (who was also arrested recently) from the other accused, saying otherwise the entire trial would be delayed.
The TADA judge accepted the CBI plea and ordered separation of trial on June 13. In the main trial, Judge Kode will begin to deliver the judgement from August 10.
Salem, in his petition in the High Court, has also alleged some other violations of the extradition agreement.
One of his contentions is that as per the agreement, he was to be sent back to India for standing trial, not for interrogation and fresh probe.
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