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Kohli's to be in custody till Sep 24
A court has extended judicial custody of the prime accused in Hannah rape and murder case.
The judicial custody of Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, accused in the murder of British teenager Hannah Foster, was on Friday extended till September 24 by a Delhi court.
Kohli was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate SK Sharma as the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, who is "enquiring" into the demand for his extradition to UK, was on leave on Friday.
Kohli was brought to New Delhi on September 10 from Chandigarh where he had been lodged after his arrest on July 15 from Kalimpong in Darjeeling in connection with 17-year-old Foster's murder
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravinder Dudeja had on September 10 remanded the accused to judicial custody pending the extradition proceedings and fixed Friday for hearing the Centre's evidence against the fugitive.
Foster went missing on March 14, 2003 from Southampton in England and her body was found after two days.
Investigations led police to Kohli, who fled England within two days of discovery of Foster's body. He was traced to his family home in Punjab but before he could be arrested he escaped from there too. He was finally arrested from Kalimpong near Indo-Nepal border on July 15 this year. He had settled in the area after marrying a Nepalese woman.
Chandigarh-born Kohli, a graduate from the Patiala University, had migrated to England in 1993 and settled down after marrying a British girl. He was working there as a driver with a courier company.
