Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt and extradited gangster Abu Salem are among the 115 accused who will be present in a TADA court here on Friday in the Bombay serial bomb blasts case of 1993.

The serial blasts had claimed 257 lives and left hundreds other wounded.

TADA court Judge P D Kode today issued the directive while ordering anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of Mumbai police to produce Salem in the court on December 9 to enable it make the necessary changes in the chargesheet in the case.

The gangster was shown as an absconding accused by the CBI when it filed the chargesheet in 1993. Now when Salem has been arrested, remanded and interrogated after his extradition from Portugal early last month, alterations in the chargesheet has become a judicial necessity.

The judge, while directing the ATS to produce Salem in the court, also ordered presence of all the remaining 114 accused in the case.

These include 84 who are out on bail; Sanjay Dutt being one of them.

The remaining 30 accused, including the Memon family which allegedly master-minded the serial blasts, are in jail for varying years since 1993.

While directing the ATS to give an undertaking that they will produce Salem in the court on Friday, Mr Kode ordered that in the event of expiry of police remand on December 17, Salem will be returned to the custody of trial court.

The gangster is under police remand till December 17 in the 1995 murder case of builder Pradeep Jain and the remand was granted by another TADA court Judge Pradeep Bavkar.

Salem is under judicial custody in the blasts case till December 20.