London: A London court on Tuesday turned down the demand of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the extradition of the accused in the Navy war room leak case Ravi Shankaran.
Shankaran is a key accused in the case of leaking classified defence information from the war room to arms dealers and had fled to England to escape trial.
An extradition order was issued against him in 2013 which has been cancelled. He was first located in UK in 2007 and an extradition request was sent. However, he reportedly fled from London to other parts of Europe before he ran out of luck in 2010 when he was arrested by Scotland Yard.
The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had argued the CBI's case that there was substantial evidence to extradite the accused for a trial in India. In its order, the UK court had dismissed Shankaran's claims that CBI had gone "out of the way to cover up false and fabricated evidence" as having no "merit whatsoever".
The judge had also said extradition hearings are bound by good faith between sovereign states and he is confident that if the prosecution in India no longer felt there was "credible and admissible" evidence against the accused, then it was their duty to end the proceedings and withdraw the extradition request.
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