War room leak: Accused may be extradited next month

The Central Buraeu of Investigation on Tuesday claimed success after a London court accepted its evidence for extradition of the 2006 War Room Leak accused Ravi Shankaran, a Navy commander who fled India since registration of the case in March 2006. It hopes to get him in India next month to stand trial in the case.

The London court ruled that there is an "admissible case" against him and fixed the case for hearing on December 30, according to a CBI press note.

Shankaran is among those chargesheeted for stealing documents on the commercial transactions and allegedly passing on to a foreign company trying to sell its Scorpion submarine to the navy.

An extradition request was sent to the United Kingdon in 2007 and Ravindran was arrested by UK authorities in April last year on the basis of a non-bailable arrest warrant by a Delhi court. An Interpol Red Notice was also issued against him in 2006.

As a result of close coordinated efforts between Crown Prosecution Services, UK, High Commission of India, London and CBI, the attempts of the accused to cause doubts in the case were successfully refuted.

The CBI team as well as a Forensic expert successfully clarified doubts raised by Ravindran's lawyers about the electronic evidence during their deposition before the extradition court in UK.