{"id":41877,"date":"2025-04-22T19:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/41877\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T19:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:28:18","slug":"ed-briefs-delhi-court-on-u-k-court-denying-sanjay-bhandaris-extradition-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/41877\/","title":{"rendered":"ED briefs Delhi court on U.K. court denying Sanjay Bhandari\u2019s extradition to India"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n File picture of Sanjay Bhandari. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement\n <\/p>\n

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday (April 22, 2025) informed a Delhi court about a U.K. court denying the extradition of Sanjay Bhandari to India. Mr. Bhandari, a defence consultant, wanted on charges of tax evasion and money laundering, has cited the \u201cunsafe conditions\u201d in the Tihar Jail in Delhi. <\/p>\n

Mr. Bhandari\u2019s name has also cropped up in the ED\u2019s ongoing probe in a money laundering case against Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.<\/p>\n

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The submissions were made before Special Judge Neelofer Abida Perveen during the hearing of a money laundering case against Mr. Bhandari and others. The Central agency also submitted that its application to declare Mr. Bhandari a \u201cfugitive\u201d is currently pending before another court and hearing of the same is scheduled for May 3.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bhandari\u2019s counsel in the past had opposed the ED\u2019s plea seeking to declare him a \u201cfugitive\u201d, stating that his stay in the U.K. was legal since his extradition to India was denied by the London high court.<\/p>\n

The U.K. court in February allowed Mr. Bhandari\u2019s appeal against his extradition citing poor and inhuman conditions in jails in India. He claimed that in India he would be at \u201creal risk\u201d of extortion, accompanied by threat or \u201cactual violence\u201d from other prisoners and prison officials.<\/p>\n

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