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Mumbai, July 21 (PTI) Three years after he was deported from Dubai for his alleged role in the murder of music baron Gulshan Kumar, a sessions court today acquitted Abdul Qayyum Shaikh, a close aide of gangster Abu Salem, due to lack of evidence. The trial against Qayyum began in April with the prosecution examining nine witnesses against him. The Sewree sessions court, however, acquitted Qayyum after observing that the prosecution has failed to prove its case. Kumar was killed by three persons outside a temple in suburban Andheri on August 12, 1997. According to the prosecution, Qayyum was one of the conspirators who attended meetings in Dubai where the plot to kill Kumar was hatched. It is the case of the prosecution that Salem and absconding accused and music composer Nadeem Saifee were also present at the meetings, which took place in the office of Aneed Ibrahim, brother of fugitive mob boss Dawood Ibrahim. Qayyum who was deported from Dubai in 2007 was booked for conspiracy and murder. Police had alleged that Kumar was murdered due to business rivalry and music baron Ramesh Taurani had paid Rs 25 lakh contract money to Salem to kill Kumar. However, police could not prove the conspiracy angle and Taurani and 17 other accused were acquitted in 2002. Nadeem was in London at the time of Kumar''s murder and has not returned since then. The Indian government had sought Nadeem''s extradition but lost the case in a UK court. Salem is still shown as an absconding accused in the murder case as his extradition treaty with Portugal does not mention that he would be tried under this case.
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