Bombay High Court rejects Abu Salem's plea seeking parole to get married
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Salem, 46, sentenced to life imprisonment had moved the high court seeking release from prison on parole for a month as he wants to marry Kausar Bahar, a resident of Mumbra area in Thane district.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday rejected 1993 Mumbai serial blast convict Abu Salem's plea seeking a 45-day parole to get married.
Salem, 46, sentenced to life imprisonment had moved the high court seeking release from prison on parole for a month as he wants to marry Kausar Bahar, a resident of Mumbra area in Thane district.
Salem is lodged in Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai and had approached the high court after the Navi Mumbai commissioner had rejected his plea in April.
Rejecting the petition, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice V K Tahilramani and Justice M S Sonak observed Salem has been convicted on the serious charge of terrorism and hence cannot be released on parole.
The applicant had said the parole request should be considered on "humanitarian grounds" as he cannot shun his duty towards the woman since he has promised to marry her, and that she also does not intend to marry anyone else.
Salem said he should be allowed to maintain family and social ties.
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Previously, Salem had reportedly married Kausar over the phone while he was on a train to Lucknow for a court hearing. Further reports had said that she threatened to kill herself if she the court rejected her application to marry the jailed gangster.
The gangster is serving a life sentence in jail after being convicted in the 1993 Mumbai blasts that had killed 257 and injured 713 people. He has also been sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment in 2002 extortion case by Delhi Court.