DOGRA HERALD BUREAU
NEW DELHI, Nov 28
Rwanda extradited to India on Thursday a member of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) facing an Interpol Red Notice in an operation coordinated by the NIA and the CBI, officials said here.
Salman Rehman Khan, an alleged member of the internationally proscribed terrorist organisation, had assisted in providing arms, ammunition and explosives to further terrorist activities in Bengaluru, they said.
“The Global Operations Centre of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has closely coordinated with the NIA and Interpol National Central Bureau – Kigali for the return to India from Rwanda of Salman Rehman Khan, wanted by the NIA for terror-related offences,” a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had lodged a case in 2023 related to criminal conspiracy to spread terror in Bengaluru, they said. An FIR was also registered at Hebbal Police Station, Bengaluru.
Khan, who was previously imprisoned in a POCSO case (2018–2022), had allegedly facilitated the collection and distribution of explosives for other terror accused after being radicalised and recruited during his incarceration by T Naseer, a life convict in a terror case, according to the NIA probe.
Naseer had allegedly orchestrated the radicalisation and subsequent criminal activities to further LeT operations in the country besides plotting his escape en route to the court from the prison, the agency said.
When the terror module was busted, Khan managed to give agencies a slip and escaped from the country, it said.
NIA chargesheeted him in stringent anti-terror law and Indian Penal Code and court declared him a fugitive,” it said.
“The CBI on request of the NIA had got a Red Notice issued against the subject from Interpol on August 2, 2024. It was circulated to all law enforcement agencies globally for tracking of the wanted criminal,” the CBI statement said.
Based on the Red Notice, he was apprehended by authorities in Kigali, Rwanda.
The information was passed on to the CBI which is the designated agency for coordination of Interpol affairs in India and the NIA. After legal proceedings, he was extradited to India.
“He was returned to India on 28.11.2024 by a security team from NIA,” the CBI statement said.
The return of Khan comes soon after similar operations in coordination with Interpol wherein two accused — one wanted by the CBI and another by the Kerala Police — were brought back from Saudi Arabia.
Barkat Ali Khan, who had an Interpol Red Notice, was wanted in a 2012 case of rioting and use of explosive substances. He was brought back from Saudi Arabia on November 14.
Raihan Arabikkalalarikkal, who also had an Interpol Red Notice against him and was wanted by police in Pattambi, Kerala for committing rape and sexual offences against a minor, was brought from Saudi Arabia on November 10.
“The CBI, as National Central Bureau for Interpol in India, coordinates closely with all Law Enforcement Agencies in India for cooperation over Interpol channels. Since 2021, as many as 100 wanted criminals, including 26 this year, have been returned to India through coordination via Interpol channels,” the statement said. Plea for implementing integrated help system for women across India not justiciable: SC
New Delhi, Nov 28: The Supreme Court on Thursday said the issue raised in a plea seeking a direction to implement the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) women integrated help system, which provides a hassle-free access to justice to women survivor of violence, across India was not justiciable.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan observed the issue could be considered by the NALSA on the administrative side.
“These are matters which are not justiciable,” the bench orally told senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, who was appearing for the petitioners.
The apex court was hearing a plea, which sought a direction to implement the NALSA women integrated help system across all states and union territories, said a pilot project was operating in Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh for a little over last three years.
The bench granted six weeks time to the NALSA’s counsel to place on record the authority’s viewpoint on the issue.
While hearing the matter in September 2023, the apex court said, “Before we proceed further in the matter, we call for a report from the NALSA qua the scheme which the petitioner(s) seeks implementation of.”
The plea, filed through advocate Satya Mitra, said it was a “successful project” and they were seeking its replication across the country.
The petitioner further said it was a technology integrated system of the 181 women helpline, the NALSA legal aid helpline 15100 and all other government schemes meant to provide women and girl survivors of violence a hassle-free access to the criminal justice system, and empower and protect them from atrocities.
“It is operating on a pilot scale in Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh for the past three years,” the petitioners said.
It said extending the NALSA women’s integrated help system nationwide would not require a special budget because the schemes that were part of it were already funded and the software required to manage was also available for free.
The petition said the NALSA women’s integrated help system has a wide scope of work, including access to justice, welfare entitlements and access to all NALSA schemes for men, women, children and disadvantaged persons.
