United Kingdom has ordered extradition of Naval war room leak case accused Ravi Shankaran with the Home Secretary of that country granting 14 days to the accused to appeal against his order.
A london court had on March 27 approved extradition of Shankaran and referred the matter to Britain’s Secretary of State for further orders in the matter. The Secretary was given two months’ time to order the extradition.
The court there rejected Shankaran’s plea against extradition after the CBI assured the court that it will not oppose his bail plea once he is extradited to India.
Shankaran, 48, a relative of former Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash, had listed denial of bail in India among the reasons for opposing his extradition to this country.
Agency sources said plans were afoot to send a team to the UK to bring him back once all legal formalities of that country were completed as Shankaran, against whom an Interpol Red Corner notice is pending, may be opposing the decision of the British Home Secretary in the court there.
Shankaran, a retired naval commander, was arrested in london in May 2010. He was given conditional bail there. He is one of the key accused in the case of leaking classified information from the War Room to international arms dealers. He has been absconding since the case was registered by CBI in March 2006. His passport was revoked on May 1, 2006 and an Interpol Red Corner Notice was secured against him in July that year.