Adequate medical facilities are available to treat the prisoners in Arthur road jail, where Mallya will get full security cover as an undertrial prisoner, the court will be told. Union home secretary Rajiv Gauba last week had a long meeting with representatives of various authorities, including the ministry of external affairs, the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate and discussed responses to be filed in the UK court. The central government has already conducted an assessment of security cover given to prisoners in the Arthur road jail so that its findings could be conveyed to the UK court. If the judge rules in favour of extradition at the end of the trial, the UK home secretary must order Mallya’s extradition within two months of the appropriate day. India and the UK have an extradition treaty, signed in 1992, but so far only one extradition has taken place under the arrangement.

Source: Mint November 26, 2017 09:22 UTC