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An Indian Justice of the Peace has given the go-ahead for Rajwinder Singh, who’s accused of killing Toyah Cordingley 4 years in the past, to be extradited to Australia.
Justice Swati Sharma informed a New Delhi courtroom on Tuesday she had written an order approving the extradition, to which Mr Singh, talking by way of video hyperlink, mumbled “thanks”.
Mr Singh, 38 didn’t seem on the listening to in particular person as a result of there have been no officers out there to escort him from Tihar Jail to the courtroom as metropolis police have been preoccupied with safety preparations for Republic Day celebrations on Thursday.
As a substitute, Mr Singh attended the listening to by way of a video hyperlink.
His picture on the hyperlink was not clear and the angle of the digicam largely hid his face so it was not potential to see his expression.
It was presumably one among reduction as Mr Singh has maintained since his arrest in India final December that he desires to return to Australia – the place he has a spouse and three youngsters – to face trial.
Mr Singh, an Australian citizen, labored as a nurse and lived in Innisfail.
The prime suspect in Ms Cordingley’s killing, he was arrested in India after a four-year manhunt that adopted his escape from Australia simply hours after Ms Cordingley’s physique was discovered half-buried in sand dunes on Wangetti Seashore, in north Queensland.
Australian police wish to query Mr Singh over whether or not he stabbed Ms Cordingley, who was 24, after an argument over her canine barking at him.
Australian police mentioned Ms Cordingley, a pharmacy employee, had suffered “seen, violent accidents”.
Her canine was discovered tied up close by.
The courtroom order, together with the file and different paperwork, will now be despatched to officers in India’s Ministry of Exterior Affairs.
Exterior Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar can have the ultimate say on Mr Singh’s extradition.
The Indian authorities has already provisionally consented to Australia’s request for Mr Singh’s extradition, which wanted to be signed off by the courtroom.
Attorneys concerned within the case say it might take 30 to 45 days earlier than Mr Singh is positioned on a flight again to Australia.
-AAP
