Mauritius, India Sign Extradition Treaty

Mauritius and India have exchanged instruments of ratification of an extradition treaty. The exchange, which took place at the ministry of Foreign Affairs in Port Louis, was presided over by Anun Priya Newoor, the Mauritian Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Bondal Jaishankar, the Indian High Commissioner to Mauritius on behalf of the governments of Mauritius and India respectively.

Speaking on the treaty, Newoor said that it aims at rendering the cooperation between Mauritius and India more effective with regard to the suppression of crime and added that the treaty provides concrete steps towards combating terrorism through a provision for the reciprocal extradition of offenders.

Newoor further indicated that some 20 Indian nationals convicted in Mauritius for drug trafficking will soon be extradited to serve their sentences in India and that Mauritius intends to sign another treaty of extradition with South Africa and Madagascar.

For his part, the Indian envoy declared that India and Mauritius have decided to sign another agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal cases.

The treaty will also provide the respective countries with a legal tool to implement the international conventions against drug trafficking, the United Nations conventions against terrorism and the conventions on trans-national organized crimes and on corruption, all of which provide for the obligation to extradite or prosecute offenders, he said.

Source African Press Agency

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