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The Delhi High Court today stayed the extradition of Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, a Non-Resident Indian (NRI), to the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with the Hannah Foster rape case.
New Delhi, June 18 : The Delhi High Court today stayed the extradition of Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, a Non-Resident Indian (NRI), to the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with the Hannah Foster rape case.
Kohli has been accused of raping and murdering British teenager Hannah Foster four years ago.
The court will take up the matter on July 6.
Kohli has challenged the June 8 order passed by a Delhi court, for his extradition to the UK. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kamini Lau had said that there was sufficient prima facie evidence to allow extradition of the fugitive criminal to the UK.
Since Kohli had been continuously evading arrest after the incident, till his arrest on July 14, 2004 at Kalimpong in West Bengal. Therefore the court found it a fit case to extradite him.
Hannah Foster's phone records which revealed that she had made desperate phone calls on police helpline numbers on the night of her murder on March 14 2003 were also taken into account by the court.
The court also took into account the scientific and forensic evidence submitted before it by the External Affairs Ministry which indicated the presence of Foster's blood sample in a delivery van of the Hazzelwood Food Company which was allegedly driven by Kohli.
Earlier, Justice Kamini Lau had reserved the order on Kohli's extradition to the UK after the Government had favoured his deportation for facing trial there.
Foster's parents visited India in February with the motive of expediting an early extradition of the accused to the UK.
Hannah's parents, Trevor and Hilary Foster, had also written to President A P J Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and former Chief Justice of India Y.K. Sabharwal to cut short the judicial delay.
Kohli, a truck driver in Britain, accused of abducting, raping and killing Hannah had fled the country two days after her body was found, but was nabbed from a remote village bordering Nepal.
Hannah's body was found on the outskirts of Southampton in March 2003.
ANI
