German G3 rifle recovered from Chhattisgarh Maoists
RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh Police on Sunday claimed that for the first time it had recovered a Germanmade rifle after an anti-maoist operation in the state. The German Heckler and Koch (HK) G-3 rifle was recovered after a May 3 encounter in Sukma district between Maoists and security forces a police officer said. Sukma SP Abhishek Meena said the rifle was recovered from the site of an encounter. LONDON: Britain’s high court has rapped India for not providing its second sovereign assurance on time in the Sanjeev Chawla extradition case, which led the lower court not taking it into consideration before preventing his extradition in October last.
Not taking the second assurance from the ministry of home affairs (MHA) on prison conditions f or suspected cricket bookie Chawla is the main reason for India appealing against the October 16 judgment of the Westminster Magistrates Court.
India submitted the second assurance with more details on September 25, which was deemed too late to be taken into consideration. Its first assurance of February 28 signed by MHA under secretary V Vishwanathan was dismissed by the lower court as being “general”. The high court said in its ruling on Friday: “In our judgment the district judge was entitled to say that the second assurance had come too late to be admitted at the final hearing…”
During hearing on April 24, Mark Summers of the Crown Prosecution Service, appearing for India, apologised for the delay, but said it was “not for want of cooperation” but due to a misunderstanding. The court said: “Although Mr Summers is right to say that it was only 5 weeks late, it was handed in on the day of the hearing in circumstances where the issue had been live for over a year…(there) was no good reason advanced for the failure to provide the second assurance on time”.