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Centre exploring options to put Kim Davy on trial
With the Danish Government expressing its reservation over extraditing Purulia arms dropping case accused Kim Davy, the Centre is exploring other options to put him on trial, including conduct of the judicial proceedings through video conferencing.
Official sources here said, CBI Director AP Singh explored the possibility of putting him on trial there or through video conferencing by the court here with his Danish counterpart during an Interpol conference last week at Hanoi.
The Ministry of External Affairs, the sources said, informed the CBI that the Denmark Government was against filing an appeal against the Danish High Court that had rejected Davy’s extradition earlier this year. Denmark had informed New Delhi that there was no point in filing appeals against the High Court order rejecting the Indian Government’s plea for his extradition to face the law.
Following this, the Union Home Ministry, in a confidential letter to the CBI, asked the agency to explore other options for putting Davy on trial in the terror case.
Subsequently, the CBI has now communicated to the Union Home Ministry that the two possible options to put Davy on trial include conduct of the court proceedings against him through video conferencing or make him face the judicial process through court proceedings in Denmark. The agency, however, stressed that video conferencing for conducting his trial in the ongoing case is a "viable" option.
The Union Home Ministry, sources said, will seek the opinion of the Law Ministry for taking further action in the case.
Sources said, Davy can defend himself through video conferencing if in case the issue of his trial through the electronic medium is approved by the Danish Government.
Davy had in his defence in the Danish court said that he would be tortured if extradited to India. The CBI in its assistance to the Danish authorities had furnished undertakings that he would not be in any way face harassment. CBI had also informed them that there was not a Left Government any more in West Bengal about which Davy was apprehensive of.
