Mumbai’s TADA Court has rejected gangster Abu Salem’s petition seeking closure of his trial in the 1993 serial bomb blasts’ case.

This was after the CBI today asked the TADA court to continue the trial. In the second week of January, Abu Salem, lodged in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail had moved the TADA Court seeking the case’s closure after the Portuguese Supreme Court cancelled his extradition to India.

CBI today informed the court that it has challenged the Portuguese Supreme Court order in the Constitutional Court of Portugal and hence the trial should go on. CBI also said that the Supreme Court of India in September 2010 had held that there has been no violation of the extradition treaty.

Abu Salem was extradited to India in 2005, after a marathon legal process in Portugal lasting three years. Abu Salem is facing as many as eight cases, including the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast case, builder Pradeep Jain’s murder case, two cases of forgery in Lucknow and three cases of extortion in Delhi.