The issue of honouring India’s assurance to Portugal while extraditing gangster Abu Salem that he will not be sentenced to death or life imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts will arise only in the year 2030, the Ministry of Home Affairs has told the Supreme Court.
Salem, represented by advocate Rishi Malhotra, was extradited from Portugal when India gave an assurance on December 17, 2002 that he would neither face death penalty nor imprisonment for over 25 years here
