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CHAPTER II EXTRADITION OF FUGITIVE CRIMINALS TO FOREIGN STATE TO WHICH CHAPTER III DOES NOT APPLY

Section 8: Surrender of fugitive criminal

The Extradition Act, 1962

If upon receipt of the report and statement under sub-section (4) of section 7, the Central Government is of opinion that the fugitive criminal ought to be surrendered to the foreign State1* * *, it may issue a warrant for the custody and removal of the fugitive criminal and for his delivery at a place and to a person to be named in the warrant.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.The words “or commonwealth country” omitted by Act 66 of 1993, s. 3 (w.e.f. 18-12-1993).