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Nadeem will return if cases are dropped

Manthan Mehta in Bombay

Nadeem Saifi's lawyer Majeed Memon Friday said that they were considering the option of seeking damages from the Mumbai police, whose plea of extraditing the music director from London has been rejected by the Queen's bench court.

Speaking to newspersons, Memon said: "We would not be vindictive. However, after studying the judgment, we may consider filing a case for damages either in India or England."

The suite, if at all filed, will include claims for recovery of all cost incurred and compensation for loss of career opportunities to Nadeem.

Nadeem is the prime suspect in the murder of music magnate Gulshan Kumar.

Asked whether Nadeem would return to India, Nadeem's father said: "He would return to India only if cases against him are dropped."

Memon said the division bench, comprising of Lord Justice Rose and Justice Newman, had rejected Mumbai's police's plea to allow leave of appeal in the House of Lords.

Memon said there was only a "remote" possibility of House of Lords entertaining the appeal.

Taking a dig at the former city police commissioner R H Mendonca and the then deputy chief minister Gopinath Munde, Memon said: "The UK court has indicted these two gentlemen of misbehavior."

He said the team associated with the investigations in the case should be detached from the Mumbai police as the judgment had "tarred the face of Mumbai police."

Meanwhile, Nadeem in a press statement issued in London said: "In this case the misbehavior has been exposed, but I pray that I have taken one step whereby from now on the risks of injustice, so deep rooted in the investigation system in Mumbai, may begin to be removed."

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