This story is from January 31, 2006

Salem's JC extended till Feb 28

The TADA court which is hearing the Pradip Jain murder case extended the JC of Abu Salem and 4 other till Feb 28.
Salem's JC extended till Feb 28
MUMBAI: The TADA court which is hearing the Pradip Jain murder case on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of Abu Salem and four other accused till February 28.
The other accused in the case are Riaz Siddiqui, Naeem Khan, Mehedi Hassan, and Virendrakumar Jhamb.
City-based builder Pradip Jain was murdered, allegedly at the behest of Salem, in March 1995.
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Salem had allegedly asked Jain to forego a prime-location plot of land in favour of another builder. He ordered Jain's murder, when the two had a tiff over phone, it is alleged.
While Siddiqui is alleged to have put the plan to kill Jain into action, Naeem is said to have managed the financial part of the operation.
Mehedi Hassan is alleged to have driven Jain's assailants to the murder spot, while Jhamb, himself a builder, is alleged to have worked as a conduit for Salem when the latter demanded ransom from Jain's family in the aftermath of the murder.
Salem was transferred to judicial custody from the custody of Anti-terrorist Squad -- which is probing Jain case -- on January 17.
However, Salem is effectively in the police custody as MCOCA court in the city, had remanded him to the custody of Mumbai crime branch in Ajit Dewani murder case till February 2.
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