The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition alleging irregularities in the arrest of Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national who has been accused by the United States of conspiring to assassinate a Sikh separatist in New York, reported Live Law.
The petition was filed by one of Gupta’s family members. The petitioner had sought directions to provide adequate consular access to Gupta, among other requests, from the Indian Embassy in the Czech Republic.
Gupta, 52, is in a prison in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The United States has filed a request with the Czech authorities to extradite him.
On Thursday, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta refused to intervene with the plea, saying it was a sensitive matter involving international law, reported Live Law. The court, however, accepted the petitioner’s request to treat the plea as a representation to the Union government.
It said that the government would decide whether to…