Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju who is in the UK has said, India is trying to extradite 13 fugitives including those of Vijay Mallya and Lalit Modi, from the United Kingdom.
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"We are grateful to the UK's immigration minister for being considerate to our opinion; we raised 13 extradition cases and 16 under mutual legal assistance treaty," ANI quoted Rijiju as saying after his meeting with UK immigration minister Brandon Lewis.
"We made our position clear. The response is positive from the government's side but there can't be a detailed discussion as the matter is in court," Rijiju said in Mallya's case.
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Rijiju's visit comes amid some concerns by India for facing legal troubles in the extradition.
This came after the Westminster Magistrate's court in London recently refused to send bookie Sanjeev Kumar Chawla to India after an expert cited "unsafe, inhuman and degrading" conditions in Delhi's Tihar jail.
This is the same court which is handling the Mallya case and is set to take it up in two weeks.
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Mallya was on October 4 arrested by police in London in connection with a money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and was released on bail soon after.
The beleaguered liquor baron had told news agency PTI that he had "done nothing wrong" and had described the allegations against him as "fabricated".
Among the fugitives whose extradition India is pressing for are Rajesh Kapoor, accused of kidnapping his brother Deepak Kapoor's daughter, Tiger Hanif, who is wanted in connection with two bomb attacks in Gujarat in 1993, Atul Singh, Raj Kumar Patel, Jatiender Kumar Angurala and Asha Rani Angurala.