AP politician KVP Ramachandra Rao can be extradited to America for ‘kickbacks’ in mine scam

Hyderabad: Rajya Sabha MP KVP Ramachandra Rao faces extradition to the United States to be tried in a Chicago court as the case booked by the FBI against him is an extraditable offence.

The US Illinois court has to pass a warrant order and the same has to be transmitted from the FBI in the US through Interpol to the CBI in India.

The CBI, while executing the warrant, will have to produce the defendant before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (Extradition Court) Patiala in Delhi and once the extradition court gives its nod, he will be taken to the US for trial. The US can even ask for the provisional arrest of the defendant if it feels the urgency.

In the recent extradition case of Nerusu Lakshminivas Rao, the CID of AP police followed the same procedure and extradited him to the US after he was arrested here.

India and US had signed an extradition treaty in 1997 which states that an offence shall be extraditable whether or not laws in both the US and India place the offence within the same category or describe the offense by the same terminology.