The Czechia’s Supreme Court has stepped in the case of the Indian national Nikhil Gupta, who is facing extradition to the United States on the charges of plotting the assassination of the separatist Гірпарван Сингх Панну.
The Czech Constitutional Court has postponed the invalidation by lower courts allowing the extradition, concerns for Gupta’s safety and the need to complete case-related procedures being the grounds. The statement of Czech officials said that the inalienable delay in the extradition process should not be taken about in the light of public interest.
The interim decision, dated January 30, 2024, stresses that Gupta’s successful challenge to the extradition won’t make any change factor in the irreversible action. The legal counsel for Gupta, led by lawyer Zuzana Cernecká, is contending with the premise that the lower courts lacked a proper assessment regarding the political nature of the deal that involved governmental actors.
They have similarly had their appeals to the Municipal Court in Prague, Czech Republic (November 2023) and the Czech High Court in Prague (January 2024) dismissed as the US extradition requests were held to be admissible.In effect, the judgment suppresses the Jeremiah Minister of Justice in Czechia from implementing the final decision on Gupta’s extradition, and it must be reviewed by the court.
The length of the proceedings before constitutional courts is apparently so uncertain as well. Czechia is party to an extradition treaty with the USA, which seeks Lakhvinder Kaur Gupta’s extradition based on accusations that she tried to employ an assassin to kill the peacemaker Gagan Singh Pannun who had been declared a terrorist under India “anti-terror.”The
US provided the Indian administration with intelligence on the thwarted assassination of a neighboring country’s prime minister. We urged the country to explore the possible involvement of an Indian official in the plot. The identity of CC1 is not known as well. This person is the second highest-level official and he is the person who enters and exits the Oval Office.
