The Supreme Court has granted two weeks to the Centre to analyse the Portugal's court order terminating the extradition of Abu Salem to India and spell out its proposed action against the alleged gangster. A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam, granted the time after Attorney General G E Vahanwati submitted that government needs time to go through the judgement as the order is in Portuguese language and has to be first translated in English.
The bench had earlier asked the CBI and the Ministry of External Affairs to file their replies to Salem's plea for
quashing criminal cases against him after termination of his extradition and also asked Attorney General to assist it in deciding the case.
Salem, currently lodged in Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail, had filed the application after the Portugal Supreme Court upheld the order of a lower court there, terminating his extradition
for alleged violation of the terms of his deportation by
Indian authorities.