Salem remanded in police custody till June 8

New Delhi, June 2 (UNI) A local court today sent underworld don Abu Salem, who is facing trial in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, into police remand till June eight in an extortion case.

Additional Session Judge Rabinder Kaur allowed the Delhi police's special cell to interrogate Salem and sent him into police remand till June eight. Ms Kaur also allowed presentation of the CFSL report of Salem's voice sample on Monday.

According to the prosecution, Salem had allegedly made threatening calls to a South Delhi business man, Ashok Gupta in 2002 to extort an amount of Rs five crore. He was declared a proclaimed offender in this matter.

Police has already filed a chargesheet against the other five accused -- Pawan Mittal, Sajjan Soni, Raju Bhai, Mohammad Assraf and Chanchal Mehta.

The judge had yesterday rejected the plea of the public prosecutor for police custody of Salem and asked him to appear before the designated court.

Salem told the court that he did not want to make a confessional statement in the matter.

UNI