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Cabinet approves the Extradition Treaty between India and Lithuania
October 5 , 2017
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- Centre has approved signing of an extradition treaty between India and Lithuania.
- The treaty provides a mutual legal framework for seeking deportation of terrorists, economic offenders and other criminals.
- India has signed extradition treaties with 37 countries and extradition arrangements with eight other nations.
- An extradition treaty is a mutually agreed text signed and ratified by two Governments.
- The arrangement is made in the absence of an extradition treaty on the assurance of reciprocity including under an international convention.
- In the arrangement, two countries consider any international convention as the legal basis for extradition in respect of any offence to which the convention applies.
- It does not cover all offences.
- For e.g India has signed extradition arrangement with Italy.
- India and Italy are both States are Parties to the 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.
- This Convention has been notified under the Extradition Act by the Government of India.
- Thus the legal basis for extradition will be based on this convention
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