The special TADA court here today directed Central Bureau of Investigation to make a submission regarding a newspaper story and photographs about an alleged marriage of gangster Abu Salem with a Mumbra-based woman while he was in police's custody.
"The Thane police, who were probing this alleged marriage, have already filed a report and the court has directed CBI to make a submission regarding the photographs (of Salem and the woman) carried by a tabloid," said a CBI officer.
Earlier, the designated TADA judge G A Sanap had directed the Thane police to conduct an inquiry after the tabloid reported that Salem married a girl 'over the phone' during a train journey in January when he was being taken by police to Lucknow for a court hearing.
The court took a suo-moto (on its own) notice of the report.
The report said the 'nikah' was performed by a kazi in Mumbai over the phone and Salem's nephew advocate Rashid Ansari and some policemen were 'witnesses' to the marriage.
Salem, speaking to reporters in the court premises later, had said the report was a baseless "rumour".
The gangster, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was extradited to India from Portugal in 2005.
