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Probe ordered into Salem's interview

Taking a serious view of an interview of gangster Abu Salem filmed by a news channel with a hidden camera, purportedly within the court premises, TADA Judge PD Kode on Wednesday ordered a probe into the matter.

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MUMBAI: Taking a serious view of an interview of gangster Abu Salem filmed by a news channel with a hidden camera, purportedly within the court premises, TADA Judge PD Kode on Wednesday ordered a probe into the matter.
 
Police tightened security in and around the court. Media persons were frisked and asked to remove their shoes, leading to an altercation between them and the police.
 
The judge told Central Bureau of Investigation prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam to conduct the probe. The order was given on a complaint filed by jailor Swati Sathe who produced a CD in a sealed cover that had recordings of the interview telecast by a news channel on September 29.
 
Sathe claimed that to the best of her knowledge, the interview of Salem, also an accused in the Mumbai blasts, was taken in the TADA court and not in the Arthur Road Jail that is located in the same compound.
 
She demanded that media persons be barred from entering the court premises but the judge, who is pronouncing the 1993 serial blasts verdict in phases, said he could not give such an order.
 
However, he warned the media to desist from such practices and asked Nikam to file an affidavit after viewing the CD stating whether it constituted contempt of court.
 
The judge warned the media not to bring cameras inside the court or interview the serial blasts accused.
 
"I shall deal with such matters sternly and as per law. You can publish authenticated information but don't speculate. If you rely on somebody while reporting and if he disowns it, be ready to face the consequences," Kode observed.
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