Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Tuesday rejected deported gangster and 1993 bomb blast case convict Abu Salem’s plea, seeking his release on parole for 45 days. Salem had sought release on parole on the grounds that he wanted to get married to Mumbra girl Kausar Bahar.
The parole application filed by Salem came before the division bench of Acting Chief Justice V.K. Tahilramani and Justice M.S. Sonak on Tuesday and after hearing the same the bench rejected it.
Salem’s plan to marry was not less then a Bollywood movie story, as the gangster in his plea before the court claimed that the parole request should be allowed because it was his “duty” towards the woman to marry her. Salem’s application filed through advocate Farhana Shah had claimed that he had promised to marry the girl and she also does not have any intention to marry anyone else.
There were reports about Salem’s marriage with Bahar in 2014 with photographs of both sitting together during his train journey to Lucknow. However, based on these reports the girl claimed that these reports have earned her bad name and now nobody would marry her so she did not have any other option but to marry Salem.
Initially Bahar made an application before the special TADA court which was hearing 93 serial bomb blast case against Salem.
At that point of time Salem in his written reply before the TADA court had said that he is ready to marry her to ‘protect her honour’. Salem’s reply had said that he intended to “compensate” the woman by marrying her, as she had “suffered a great deal” after her name was linked with him.
The TADA court had kept that application pending and after pronouncing judgement in the case the judge had held that this court didn’t have jurisdiction to decide this application and it has become infructuous.
