Rejecting India's plea, Portugal's top court has questioned its locus standi in challenging the order cancelling extradition of underworld don Abu Salem to this country. Salem, who is accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case which left 250 dead, was extradited on November 11, 2005 from Portugal where he was arrested in 2002, along with his girl friend Monica Bedi. Agency sources said while it will examine legal remedies, there is little possibility of Salem being sent back. In its recent order, the Constitutional Court of Portugal said that India could not suo moto approach the top court challenging its Supreme Court's order earlier this year.

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