Mustafa Dossa’s charge to be probed

The Bombay high court on Tuesday ordered the Mumbai police crime branch to probe within two weeks the written complaint filed by 1993 serial bomb blasts accused Mustafa Dossa against extradited gangster Abu Salem over an altercation between the duo inside the high security Arthur Road prison last year.

Dossa had alleged that the police were biased against him and had registered a case against him for assaulting Salem and refused to register his complaint of extortion against Salem.
Deputy commissioner of police, Zone III, Suhas Warkhe, in an affidavit filed in the court stated that the police had not taken cognizance of Dossa’s complaint because investigations revealed that Salem had attacked Dossa in self-defence.

Meanwhile, Dossa’s advocate Rizwan Merchant said, “Salem on two occasions had demanded Rs15 crore and Rs5 crore from Dossa and Salem attacked him, when he refused.”

A division bench had on the last hearing directed the police to forward Dossa’s complaint to the crime branch. The crime branch told the court that they have already recorded Dossa’s statement and would require two weeks for the probe.