New Delhi: Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, accused in the Hannah Foster rape and murder case, moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday, challenging his proposed extradition to Britain to stand trial for the murder and rape of Foster there.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court has ordered his extradition to UK. Kohli is the prime accused in the rape and murder of British teenager Hannah Claire Foster four years ago.
A lower court had ordered his extradition. It was upheld by the High Court, though it came down on the lower court for its comment that Kohli was prima facie guilty of the crime.
Kohli has been in custody for over two-and-a-half years after his arrest on July 14, 2004 at Kalimpong in West Bengal. Opposing the extradition proceedings, which began in September 2004, Kohli had said that he was merely a suspect in the case.
Mrs Foster said all this while the family kept its fight for justice even when it looked things were faltering.
Kohli is charged with the rape and murder of 17-year-old British girl Hannah Foster and had fled to India from UK two days after the victim's body was found.
Kohli has not been interrogated by the UK police in the case as yet. Pal, who cannot appeal in this case, has 60 days to file a writ petition to ask the court to reconsider.
In April this year, the Ministry of External Affairs of the Indian Government had given a virtual go-ahead to the extradition of Kohli when it told a Delhi court that there was a prima facie case against Kohli. The government said it favoured his extradition to the UK for facing the trial.
The Ministry of External Affairs said he was a "fugitive criminal" and his conduct of fleeing from one place to another to avoid prosecution made the case fit to extradite him to the country where he allegedly committed the crime.
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