The Supreme Court dismissed a plea by gangster Abu Salem on Thursday after he sought an early launch from custody for having accomplished 25 years in jail.Salem, who’s serving a sentence in reference to the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was extradited from Portugal on November 11, 2005, following a protracted authorized battle.The extradition settlement between India and Portugal stipulated that Salem couldn’t be sentenced to demise and that his jail time period couldn’t exceed 25 years.A bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta upheld Bombay Excessive Court docket’s April ruling, which had rejected his plea for quick launch, terming it “untimely” and “misconceived”.An in depth order is but to be launched.Earlier in Feb, the Supreme Court docket refused to entertain Salem’s plea, which claimed that he was in “unlawful custody” for over 10 months as he had already undergone the 25-year sentence awarded to him within the March 12, 1993, Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.