The Supreme Court on Monday said that Centre was bound to release gangster Abu Salem in 2030, on completion of his 25 years sentence in India, to honour a solemn assurance given by the Indian government to a Portuguese court in December 2002. Abu Salem, a member of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s syndicate was sentenced to life imprisonment in February …
The Government is bound by the assurance given by the then deputy Prime Minister L K Advani to the Portugal government that the maximum sentence handed out to gangster Abu Salem will not exceed 25 years, the Union home secretary has told the Supreme Court. The top court had said that it is not satisfied with the affidavit filed by …
"If the entire representation was given to an authority which lacks the jurisdiction to consider the representation, then the right, which is being urged on account of the inaction of the Governor which, he says, infringed his Article 21 right, cannot be recognized at all", advanced ASG K. M. Nataraj. Next, as regards Article 161, he advanced that the power …
