Overview
- Abu Salem has asked for 14 days of emergency parole to perform family and religious rites in Azamgarh following his elder brother’s death on November 14, 2025.
- The division bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and Shyam Chandak directed Maharashtra to respond and listed the case for January 13.
- The bench queried the timing of the filing, while Salem’s counsel cited the High Court’s winter break as the reason for the delay.
- Salem says his November 15 application to jail authorities was rejected on November 20, and he later received leave only with an escort he could not afford.
- Currently lodged in Nashik Central Jail, Salem is serving a 25-year term for the 1993 Mumbai blasts and a 1995 murder, and he previously received brief parole in 2009 and 2011.