Overview
- A division bench of Justices Ajey S. Gadkari and Shyam C. Chandak asked Maharashtra to file its response and adjourned the matter to January 13.
- The petition requests 14 days of emergency parole to travel to Azamgarh for family and religious rites following the death of elder brother Abu Hakim Ansari.
- Salem claims he sought emergency leave on November 15 and that jail authorities rejected it on November 20 and delayed an earlier regular-parole application.
- A December 5 order offered two days’ parole with an escort at Salem’s expense, which he contests as unaffordable given his long incarceration.
- The plea proceeds alongside a separate dispute over his extradition-linked 25‑year term, with the High Court last year noting the period may not yet be complete despite a 2022 Supreme Court observation on remission.