Portugal has extradited Abu Salem to India under the treaty of

India and Portugal had no bilateral extradition treaty. India's 2002 request for Abu Salem relied on the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, 1997, to which both were parties, together with assurances of reciprocity and that he would not be sentenced to death or to imprisonment beyond 25 years. He was extradited in November 2005.

There was no Indo-Portugal extradition treaty, and neither the financing of terrorism convention nor Security Council Resolution 1373 was the basis of the request.