India-born surgeon Jayant Patel, facing charges of manslaughter and negligence for the death of 13 of his patients in Australia, was arrested by the Federal Buureau of Investigation at his home in the US state of Oregon. Patel, 57, who faces life imprisonment if convicted, was ordered held by Portland Judge Hubel, pending a bail hearing on Thursday.
"The signing of the pact sends a clear signal that the Indian government lacks that commitment to bring to justice even those accused of genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity," the human rights body said.
The agreement stipulates that each country will not knowingly facilitate, consent to or cooperate with efforts by any third country for the extradition, surrender or transfer of each other's nationals to any international tribunal.
Bangladesh will ask the Indian government to extradite Bangladeshi criminals hiding in India at the second annual South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation meeting of home ministers to be held in New Delhi.
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said the only difficulty is the Portuguese government's policy of not allowing extradition of any person to a country, which has a capital punishment.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Indian-origin businessman Shrien Dewani, accused of plotting the murder of his wife during their honeymoon in 2010, will be extradited from Britain to South Africa to stand trial, a court here ruled on Wednesday.
Pakistan has requested the British government to extradite Shamim Khan, the man who reportedly hurled his shoes at President Asif Ali Zardari during an event at Birmingham earlier this month.
The mother of a six-year-old boy who fled to India from the US in March this year has been indicted by a grand jury on several new charges including capital murder.
It has been more than two years since the alleged fraud and negligence of Patel were exposed, and 18 months since a Royal Commission-style inquiry linked him to 17 deaths during his two years as director of surgery at Bundaberg Hospital.
The request for a formal extradition plea could mean that Shankaran has been traced in Britain and his arrest is imminent.
Relenting to pressure from Danish authorities, New Delhi may give an executive assurance to Copenhagen that Davy will not be sentenced to death for any offence committed by him in India.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has politely turned down India's request for extradition of terror suspect David Headley to India on the ground he will have to first undergo a sentence which could be imposed on him in the US for the offences committed if convicted.
Dr Singh told media persons accompanying him on his way back home from Toronto that he did not raise the issue in his discussions with US President Barack Obama during his meeting with him on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the right to petition the UK Supreme Court in his fight against extradition to Sweden on rape allegation.
The Enforcement Directorate may also file a fresh chargesheet in this multi-crore money laundering case soon, they said.
Pakistan is under "tremendous pressure" from the US to extradite Lashker-e-Tayiba operations commander Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks, to India, a media report said on Wednesday.
Based on repeated appeals from Choksi, who is wanted in the Rs 13,000 crore bank fraud in Punjab National Bank and is holed in Antigua and Barbuda after fleeing from India in 2018, the CCF removed his name from the Red Notice list in November 2022, the CBI said in a statement.
India may seek US' help for extradition of Dawood Ibrahim, the mastermind of 1993 Mumbai blasts, as they vowed to make "joint and concerted efforts" to dismantle safe havens for terror and criminal networks like Lashkar-e-Tayiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, D-company, Al-Qaeda and Haqqani network.
The Central Buraeu of Investigation on Tuesday claimed success in its evidence accepted by the district court of London 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 bench said what is worrying the court is the complexity of trial as there are over 250 witnesses in the case and the co-accused government officials have been granted bail for want of sanction for prosecution.
Mexican officials allowed cameras to glimpse inside the safe house where El Chapo was hiding before his arrest on January 8, 2016.
A liberalised visa agreement and extradition treaty are likely to be signed between India and Bangladesh during Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's three-day visit to Dhaka beginning January 28.
Prosecutors have confirmed that 42-year-old Viktors Dembovskis, who was arrested earlier this month and is in custody in Preile in Latvia, would be handed over to the UK police, they said.
By giving himself over to the police, Satyam Computer's former chairman B Ramalinga Raju may have pre-empted an extradition to the United States, where several lawsuits have been filed against him, says a section of legal experts.
India and Bangladesh on Monday agreed to conclude an extradition treaty at the earliest and vowed not to allow each other's territories to be used by domestic or foreign militants and insurgents' outfits.
The Central Bureau of Investigation will soon approach United Arab Emirates authorities seeking extradition of British national and alleged middleman Christian Michel James in connection with its probe in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP choppers deal.
Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam, who appeared on behalf of the CBI, assured the court that the agency would file its response on the claim made by Agarwal.
Rediff.com's Vipin Vijayan, who is travelling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, says India will make efforts to elevate relations with Thailand to a strategic partnership.
India has constituted a probe team to investigate allegations relating to the foiled plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Sikh extremist and known to be an American and Canadian citizen.
Salem had said his sentence could not exceed 25 years as per a solemn assurance given by India to Portugal for his extradition in 2002.
Purchase of three plots of land in Haryana in 2005-06 by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra from a real estate agent is being probed along with a land deal made by his wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claimed in a recently filed money laundering case charge sheet.
Indian Ambassador Pramathesh Rath said the CBI team, which was currently in El Dorado city, has appointed a lawyer who would assist the public prosecutor given by the Argentinean government to plead CBI's before the judge there.
"There is sufficient evidence to prove prima-facie case against Kohli. The review petition filed by Kohli has no merit and we dismiss it," a Bench comprising Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice P K Bhasin said.
The ED, in its chargesheet filed against Michel in June 2016, had alleged that he received 30 million (about Rs 225 crore) from AgustaWestland.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to undertake a long-overdue visit to Saudi Arabia next month or early March during which the two countries will sign nine pacts, including an extradition treaty and an Agreement on Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners.
He said this ahead of his five-day tour to France and Qatar, the principal purpose of which is to sign an extradition treaty with France.
The ED said Das stated that his first statement given to the agency on November 3 last year in which he cited Baghel's name was "true and correct".
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