Day after Attack, Salem Shifted to Raigad, Dossa Moved to Thane
day after he was allegedly attacked by a member of Dawood Ibrahim’s gang inside Mumbai’s Arthur Road Prison, authorities shifted notorious Mafiosi and 1993 serial blasts case accused, Abu Salem (43) to the Taloja Central Jail in Raigad district, his lawyer said on Sunday.
Salem’s lawyer Saba Qureshi said the decision to shift Salem was taken his client was attacked by Mustafa Dossa of the Dawood Ibrahim gang on Saturday.
Salem was shifted late on Saturday night.
According to Maharashtra home department officials, Salem was shifted to avoid any further security breaches or clashes between members of the rival gangs.
Meanwhile, Mustafa Dossa has been shifted to Thane prison, said reports.
Salem was attacked, allegedly by an improvised sharp-edged weapon during breakfast time inside the Arthur Road Jail, on Saturday. He suffered injuries on the face and neck.
A case has been lodged against Dossa at the NM Joshi Marg police station.
Besides his alleged role in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, Salem is also named as an accused in the killing of music baron Gulshan Kumar in 1997.
He, along with his girlfriend and Bollywood starlet Monica Bedi, was extradited from Portugal in November 2005 after the former National Democratic Alliance government assured Portuguese authorities that the two would not be awarded capital punishments.
(Based on media reports)
