India to extradite Bangladeshi man to UK soon: Home Secretary

India is set to extradite a Bangladeshi national wanted in the UK on murder charges in the next week or 10 days, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi has said as he concluded his visit to Britain.
Extradition was a central issue during the India-UK Home Affairs Dialogue in London yesterday, which took place against the backdrop of the ongoing court proceedings in the UK against embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, who is wanted in India on fraud charges.
"We are on the verge of extraditing an individual from India to the UK in the next week or 10 days. The extradition treaty is working just fine and there is no difficulty in the extradition treaty. We have extraditions already successfully completed," Mehrishi said.

While he did not name the individual, senior officials with knowledge of the case have disclosed that the man in question was Bangladeshi national Mohammad Abdul Shakur.
He is accused of murdering his wife Juli Begum and two daughters in the UK in 2007 before fleeing the country.
Shakur was arrested in Assam and, according to official sources, the delay in his repatriation to the UK has been as a result of an ongoing court case in New Delhi, which is being wrapped up to make way for his extradition.

The UK Home Office was unable to comment on the case.

"We only comment directly on extradition from the UK, as extradition to the UK is a matter for the requested state," a UK Home Office spokesperson said.
In reference to the ongoing extradition case from the UK to India of Mallya, Mehrishi had indicated that any hurdles in the broader extradition process between the two countries were discussed during his meetings in the UK over the past week.
"Mr Vijay Mallya's case is sub-judice and in the courts. All the issues that pertain to extradition, across the board, were discussed," he said, when asked about Mallya's case.
India and Britain have an extradition treaty, signed in 1992, but so far only one extradition of Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel has taken place from the UK to India under the arrangement.

"He was extradited with the due process of law. We do understand that extradition does take time and there are multiple levels of appeal in either country and it is not the easiest of processes to complete. But being a liberal democracy that we are, we have to allow for the law taking its own course," Mehrishi said.
Mallya, the 61-year-old former chief of the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines, has been in the UK since March 2016 and was arrested by Scotland Yard on an extradition warrant on April 18.
He allegedly owes nearly Rs 9,000 crore to various Indian banks and is currently out on bail in the UK, with an extradition trial set to begin on December 4.