Jharkhand man assaulted in Kavoor, called Bangladeshi: Police arrest three men
Mangaluru: Kavoor Police on Monday arrested three men from Koolur in the taluk charged with verbal and physical assault as well as attempt to murder of a Jharkhand-based man, under the assumption that the victim was a Bangladeshi citizen.
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The arrested, Ratis Das, also called Lalu (32), Dhanush (24) and Sagar, assaulted a man from Jharkhand, identified as Diljan Ansari, on Sunday evening, police have said. The men are said to have inquired him about his religion, before declaring him to be a Bangladeshi and insulting him further. The victim has also alleged in his complaint that the trio attempted to murder him by hitting him with a rod, the officers added.
An FIR was filed at the Kavoor Police Station under BNS 2023, and the police team held the accused on Monday.
The officers have said that they are conducting further investigation into the incident.
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HC dismisses Abu Salem’s plea seeking immediate release after completing '25 years' in jail
Mumbai (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed gangster Abu Salem’s plea for immediate release, claiming he had served 25 years in jail in India mandated under the terms of his extradition from Portugal.
In his plea, Salem had contended that if remission for good behaviour is included, then his 25-year jail term is complete and hence he ought to be freed.
A bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata said it cannot hold that the 25-year jail term is complete, as it would be premature to say anything at this stage on the point of remission.
The court relied on a Supreme Court judgment wherein it was held that remission of a prisoner would need to be calculated a month before the applicant’s release.
“Therefore, the present petition (filed by Salem) is dismissed,” the court said.
A copy of the detailed order is yet to be made available.
Salem’s plea, filed through advocate Farhana Shah, had said that when he was extradited from Portugal in 2005, India had assured that he would not be handed over the death penalty in any case and that he would not be imprisoned for more than 25 years.
The government had opposed his plea, noting that Salem has spent only 19 years in jail and that a decision on his premature release was pending.
Salem was convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case and sentenced to life imprisonment.
