India-UK extradition
I thoroughly enjoyed delivering a two-part lecture on the India-UK extradition framework to students of Chanakya National Law University, Patna. Over the last few years, high profile cases of Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi have generated much interest in the process of extradition. Although in the UK it has been extradition requests from the US that garner a lot of media attention and buzz among legal professionals, extradition requests from India feature prominently in case law. It was in this context that four years ago I co-wrote hashtag Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London which takes a close look at some of the major cases of extradition since 1950. The students were eager to understand the (limited) role of the executive in extradition requests coming from Category 2 Type B countries, which includes India among others. There were also questions on sovereign assurances, human rights conditions, and the necessity to establish a prima facie case. Countries...
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