COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A Danish court said on Thursday it had rejected a request by India for the extradition of a Danish national wanted by the Asian nation over a 1995 weapons smuggling case.
India has for years sought to have Niels Holck extradited to stand trial on suspicion of supplying a West Bengal riot movement with around four tons of weapons.
Sending Holck to India would violate Denmark’s extradition act due to a risk that he would be subjected to treatment in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, the court ruled.
A Danish public prosecutor, who last year nominated Holck for a handover to stand trial in India, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Holck previously admitted in a Danish court that he was onboard a Russian cargo plane with six others, smuggling weapons into West Bengal on the night of Dec. 17 1995.
(Reporting by Isabelle Yr Carlsson; editing by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Terje Solsvik)
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