Purulia arms dropping case: Govt to approve Davy's extradition
The Union cabinet on Thursday will consider a CBI proposal to extradite Davy as per the conditions laid down by the Danish government, reports Chetan Chauhan.
Decks may be cleared for extradition of the key accused in Purulia arms dropping case Neil Holock Neilson alias Kim Davy.
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The Union cabinet on Thursday will consider a proposal of the Central Bureau of Investigation to extradite Davy as per the conditions laid down by the Danish government.
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The Danish government in April 2005 had prescribed primarily five conditions for extradition of Kim Davy located by CBI in Denmark in 2002. In October same year, the CBI request for his extradition was accepted but Danish government laid down conditions for his extradition.
The biggest stumbling blocks in his extradition was a condition of Danish government to repatriate Davy back to Denmark once convicted for the period of his imprisonment. The government agreed to the condition a few months ago and now Cabinet's approval is being sought to proceed for his extradition plea with the Danish government.
Danish government had also asked the Indian government to initiate proceedings against Davy only for Purulia arms dropping case in a regular court and expeditious trial in accordance with UN convention for civil and political rights. Another condition laid down was unrestricted access to him by officials of Danish Embassy and Consulate.
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Davy was allegedly the mastermind in dropping arms and ammunition over Purulia on the night of December 17, 1995 from an AN-26 Aircraft. Although Davy managed to flee by bribing officials at Mumbai airport, six others including Peter Bleach of England and five Latvians were arrested. Their sentences were, however, remitted following diplomatic pressure.
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Davy was allegedly the mastermind in dropping arms and ammunition over Purulia on the night of December 17, 1995 from an AN-26 Aircraft. Although Davy managed to flee by bribing officials at Mumbai airport, six others including Peter Bleach of England and five Latvians were arrested. Their sentences were, however, remitted following diplomatic pressure.
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Interrogation of the accused had revealed that Kim Davy was the mastermind behind the entire operation but had managed to flee.
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.
