1993 Mumbai Serial Blasts: Here Are Less Known Facts About Abu Salem Who Gets Life Imprisonment

Abu Salem and his Bollywood partner Monica Bedi, in September 2002, were arrested and served jail sentence in Portugal. They were arrested for entering the country on forged documents. An Indian Court, in 2006, convicted Bedi for procuring a passport on a fictitious name. In November 2010, the Supreme Court upheld Monica's conviction but reduced the jail term to the period that Bollywood actress had already served. (Source: PTIFile)

Abu Salem married Samira Jumani, a college girl and a 17-year-old minor in the year 1991. Later he divorced her.

Abu Salem's father was a lawyer by profession who was killed in a road accident. Abu Salem worked in Delhi as a taxi driver. Abu Salem worked as a bread delivery boy between Bandra and Andheri in Mumbai.

Abu Salem is infamous for terrorizing the Bollywood film industry by extorting money from film producers. He used to usurp the overseas distribution rights.

Abu Salem is originally from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh (U.P).

Besides Salem, the court also sentenced Karimullah Khan to life imprisonment in connection with the case, 24 years after the attacks. The incident left 257 people dead in the country's financial capital. Here are some lesser known facts about gangster Abu Salem:

New Delhi: Gangster Abu Salem was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment by a special TADA court in Mumbai in the 1993 serial blasts case.

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