New Delhi, Oct 30: The CBI has provided to Portugal government further clarifications with citations from the court rulings to show that minorities were not discriminated in the country as alleged by Abu Salem, a main accused in the 1993 Bombay serial blast case, during his extradition hearing in that country. A communique received from the prosecutor general at Lisbon asked the CBI to furnish some more judgements and clarifications to substantiate the claim that Muslims were not discriminated in the country, CBI sources said here today. The CBI had already sent in notings of Justice (Retd) M L Pendse to the Portugal government which spoke about the fairness of the Indian judiciary.
The agency sent some more clarifications last night to the Portugal government which included citations from more judgements to show that there was no discrimination against Muslims in the country.
Dismissing as baseless Salem's contention of allegedly facing discrimination because of being Muslim, the CBI had also said that India was a democratic country where there was no discrimination on the basis of religion, caste, creed or sex.
Salem had presented a person identified as Martin Lau as one of his witnesses in connection with his allegations that Muslims were facing discrimination in the country.
Lau is the same person who had testified in the extradition case of Nadeem Akhthar, wanted by Mumbai Police in Gulshan Kumar murder case. Bureau Report