Fresh production warrant against underworld don Salem

A Delhi court has issued a fresh production warrant against underworld don Abu Salem after the Mumbai police failed to produce him again in an extortion case here.
    
Chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja sought the presence of the extradited gangster before the court on April 24.
    
The court had on March 19 directed the Arthur Road Jail authorities in Mumbai to produce Salem on Friday.
    
The Mumbai police had on December 12 last year and on January 16 and February 24 failed to produce the gangster here.
    
Two other accused CP Rai and Sadiq Ali were present before the court while another accused Istiyaq Ahmed had sought exemption from appearance during the proceedings.

Salem, who was brought here on November 26 last year, has been lodged in the Mumbai jail after being extradited from Portugal in 2005.

Besides Salem, three others Rai, Ali and Ahmed have been booked for allegedly making threat calls to Rajat Nagrath, owner of Allied Communication at East of Kailash here, demanding Rs one crore in 2002.
     
The don is facing trial in eight cases including 1993 Mumbai serial blasts and two murder.
     
A separate court here is also hearing another extortion case registered under stringent law MCOCA against Salem in which Delhi government had filed a plea to withdraw the charges against him.