New Delhi: Stepping up its efforts to extradite IC-814 hijacking mastermind Abdul Rauf to the country, India is sending a team to Chile to confirm the identity of the arrested man.
According to Zeenews, the two member team- one officer each from both the RAW and CBI – will press for the extradition of Rauf, who is a Pakistani, to India based on the Interpol Red Corner notice against him in connection with the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane from Kathmandu on December 24, 1999.
Rauf is the brother of Mualana Masood Azhar, amongst India’s most wanted. Azhar was among the three men exchanged for 154 passengers after eight-days of negotiations carried out at Kandahar, a city in Southern Afghanistan.
Azhar is the founder of the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and is said to be operating from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
Rauf is said to have taken command of Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2007 after Maulana Masood Azhar went underground.
Reports further said that the two-member team will be flying to the Chilean capital fly Santiago via New York.
The Indian team has a tough job at hand as they will have to substantiate the basis on which India had got the Red Corner notice issued against Rauf to make their case credible. The job gets tougher as India and Chile don’t have a mutual extradition treaty and hence Chilean laws will also have a bearing on how things work out for India.
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