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India's plea for Nadeem's extradition rejected

The plea by the government of India to extradite music director Nadeem Akhtar Saifee, one of the accused in the Gulshan Kumar murder case, was Thursday rejected by the London High Court, Nadeem's lawyer Abdul Majeed Memon said in Bombay.

Memon said that the plea was rejected by a division bench headed by Deputy Chief Justice Rose and Justice Newman. The 26-page order was delivered Thursday.

''The judges disallowed the Indian government's petition to extradite Nadeem and said he was falsely implicated by the Bombay police,'' Memon said.

"We order that Nadeem Akhtar Saifee be discharged forthwith in relation to the offences in respect of which his return is sought by the Union of India," Lord Justice Rose and Justice Newman of the high court said in their judgement.

The judges ordered conditional bail to Nadeem pending an appeal by the Indian government to the House of Lords against the judgement.

The judges ruled that Nadeem would remain on residential bail and his passport would remain confiscated. There would not be any need for the 200,000 pounds surety or reporting to police, the judges said.

Gulshan Kumar was gunned down in August, 1997 near a temple at Oshiwara, Andheri in north-west Bombay.

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