New Delhi, Aug 19 - Extradited gangster Abu Salem, facing charges of extortion, Wednesday told a city court that conducting his trial by video-conferencing was not fair and it would violate his extradition conditions.

'At the time of his extradition in 2005, it was clearly mentioned in the terms and conditions that he would be tried in person (in his physical presence),' Arvind Kumar Shukla, counsel for Salem, told the court.

The right to a fair trial of the accused would also be affected if the proceedings were conducted without his physical presence, he said, adding that similar efforts to conduct his trial in other cases in Lucknow and Hyderabad did not bear fruit and had to be aborted.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, however, assured Salem of a fair trial.