Success of sorts
The HinduINDIA registered twin successes on the question of extradition of fugitives from other countries recently. While it secured the extradition of Christian Michel, a British national and the alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland chopper deal, from the United Arab Emirates, a U.K. court, after year-long proceedings, found Vijay Mallya extraditable to India. India forwarded the Enforcement Directorate’s request for extraditing another fugitive and Choksi’s co-accused in the Rs.14,356-crore Punjab National Bank fraud, Nirav Modi, from the U.K. on August 3, on the basis of two red-corner notices issued by it. The Crown Prosecution Service laid out the Indian government’s primafacie case of fraud and money laundering against Mallya and argued that there was no bar on his extradition to India on human rights grounds. India’s extradition arrangement with Italy is restricted to drug-related offences, whereas India’s only case against Gerosa is a red-corner notice request from the E.D.