New Delhi, June 11: Underworld don and main accused in the Mumbai bomb blast Abu Salem's first wife, Sameera alias Rubina, has been detained in the United States for allegedly travelling on a fake document. Sameera, who is wanted in two cases of forging passport in Bhopal and Lucknow, was detained by FBI last week when she had gone to meet one of the acquaintances to collect funds, informed sources said.
There is no case pending against Sameera with the CBI but the agency had secured an Interpol Red Corner notice against her for obtaining forged passports from Bhopal and Lucknow, the sources said. The FBI is believed to have sought a criminal dossier of Sameera from India, which would include her fingerprints and sketches.
Though there was no official confirmation about the detention, the sources said that any formal word about her detention would come only after dossier matched with the details of the detained woman.
Her husband, Abu Salem, is already facing an extradition trial in Portugal along with his girl friend Monica Bedi. Sameera escaped with Salem from Mumbai to Dubai after the underworld don's name figured in the 1993 serial bomb blast case in which 257 people were killed and property worth crores of rupees were damaged. Bureau Report