UK-India Extraditions: Ripe for reform?
UK-India Extraditions: Ripe for reform? Prasun Sonwalkar/New Delhi Filed on May 8, 2021 | Last updated on May 9, 2021 at 06.37 am India and Britain signed an extradition treaty in 1992, but since then there have been only rare returns of India’s most wanted. As the Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi cases roll on, it may be time to reform the template. How it started…how it’s going: The contours of a popular meme format are useful to put the story of extraditions from the UK to India in context. When India’s home minister S B Chavan and British foreign secretary Ken Clarke signed an ...