REGISTERED NO . D. 221 रजिस्ट्री सं ० डी-221
भारत का राजपत्र The Gazette of India
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भाग II-- खण्ड - उप- खण्ड ( i )
PART II- Section 3 - Sub - section ( i )
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नई दिल्ली, शुक्रवार , अप्रैल 1, 1966/चैत्र 11, 1888
No. 59]
NEW DELHI , FRIDAY , APRIL 1 , 1966 / CHAITRA 11 , 1888
इस भाग में भिन्न पृष्ठ संख्या दी जाती है जिससे कि यह अलग संकलन के रूप में रखा आ सके ।
Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation .
MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
ORDER
New Delhi , the 1st April 1966
G.S.R. 493. Whereas the Extradition Treaty between the United States of America and Great Britain and Northern Ireland of December 22 , 1931 , which was acceded to by India on 9th March , 1942 , is in force in India from 9th March, 1942 and which treaty provides as follows:
"Article 1
The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other , under cer- tain circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty , those persons who , being accused or convicted of any of the crimes or offences enumerated in Article 3, committed within the jurisdiction of the one Party , shall be found within the territory of the other Party .
Article 2
For the purposes of the present Treaty the territory of His Britannic Majesty shall be deemed to be Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man , and all parts of His Britannic Majesty's dominions overseas other than those enumerated in Article 14 , together with the territories enumerat- ed in Article 16 and any territories to which it may be extended under Article 17. It is understood that in respect of all territory of His Britannic Majesty as above defined other than Great Britain and Northern Ireland , the Channel Islands , and the Isle of Man , the present Treaty shall be applied as far as the laws permit.
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For the purposes of the present Treaty the territory of the United States shall be deemed to be all territory wherever situated belonging to the United States ,. including its dependencies and all other territories under its exclusive administra- tion or control .
Article 3
Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences :
( 1 ) Murder ( including assassination , parricide , infanticide , poisoning ) , or attempt or conspiracy to murder.
(2) Manslaughter .
( 3 ) Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of women .
(4) Rape.
( 5) Unlawful carnal knowledge , or any attempt to have unlawful carnal knowledge , of a girl under 16 years of age .
(6) Indecent assault if such crime or offence be indictable in the place where the accused or convicted person is apprehended .
( 7) Kidnapping or false imprisonment .
(8) Child stealing , including abandoning , exposing or unlawfully detaining.
(9) Abduction .
( 10) Procuration: that is to say the procuring or transporting of a woman or girl under age , even with her consent, for immoral purposes , or of a woman or girl over age , by fraud , threats , or compulsion, for such purposes with a view in either case to gratifying the passions. of another person provided that such crime or offence is punishable by imprisonment for at least one year or by more severe punishment .
( 11) Bigamy .
( 12) Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm .
(13 ) Threats, by letter or otherwise , with intent to extort money or other things of value .
( 14) Perjury , or subornation of perjury .
(15) Arson .
(16) Burglary or housebreaking , robbery with violence , larceny or embezzle- ment .
(17) Fraud by a bailee , banker , agent , factor , trustee , director , member , or public officer of any company , or fraudulent conversion .
(18) Obtaining money , valuable security , or goods , by false pretences ; receiv- ing any money , valuable security , or other property , knowing the same to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained .
(19) ( a ) Counterfeiting or altering money , or bringing into circulation counterfeited or altered money .
(b) Knowingly and without lawful authority making or having in posses- sion any instrument , tool, or engine adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of coin .
(20 ) Forgery , or uttering what is forged.
(21 ) Crimes or offences against bankruptcy law .
(22) Bribery , defined to be the offering , giving or receiving of bribes .
(23 ) Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any persons travelling or being upon a railway .
(24) Crimes or offences or attempted crimes or offences in connection with the traffic in dangerous drugs .
(25 ) Malicious injury to property , if such crime or offence be indictable.
(26) ( a ) Piracy by the law of nations .
(b) Revolt , or conspiracy to revolt , by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master ; wrongfully sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting to do so ; assaults on board a ship on the high - seas , with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
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(27) Dealing in slaves .
Extradition is also to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes or offences , provided that such participation be punishable by the laws of both High Contracting Parties ,
Article 4
The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed has already been tried and discharged or punished , or is still under trial in the territories of the High Contracting Party applied to , for the crime or offence for which his extradi- tion is demanded .
If the person claimed should be under examination or under punishment in the territories of the High Contracting Party applied to for any other crime or offence , his extradition shall be deferred until the conclusion of the trial and the full execution of any punishment awarded to him .
Article 5
The extradition shall not take place if, subsequently to the commission of the crime or offence or the institution of the penal prosecution or the conviction thereon , exemptionption from prosecution or punishment has been acquired by lapse of time , according to the laws of the High Contracting Party applying or applied to.
Article 6
A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the crime or offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character , or if he proves that the requisition for his surrender has , in fact , been made with a view to try or punish him for a crime or offence of a political character .
Article 7
A person surrendered can in no case be kept in custody or be brought to trial in the territories of the High Contracting Party to whom the surrender has been made for any other crime or offence , or on account of any other matters , than those for which the extradition shall have taken place , until he has been restored, or has had an opportunity of returning , to the territories of the High Contracting Party by whom he has been surrendered .
This stipulation does not apply to crimes or offences committed after the extradition .
Article 8
The extradition of fugitive criminals under the provisions of this Treaty shall be carried out in the United States and in the territory of His Britannic Majesty respectively , in conformity with the laws regulating extradition for the time being in force in the territory from which the surrender of the fugitive criminal is claimed .
Article 9
The extradition shall take pomу п the evidence be found sufficient , according to the laws of the High Contracting Party applied to , either to justify the committal of the prisoner for, trial , in case the crime or offence had been committed in the territory of such High Contracting Party , or to prove that the prisoner is the identical person convicted by the courts of the High Contracting Party who makes the requisition , and that the crime or offence of which he has been convicted is one in respect of which extradition could , at the time of such conviction , have been granted by the High Contracting Party applied to .
Article10
Ifthe individual claimed by one of the High Contracting Parties in pursuance of the present Treaty should be also claimed by one or several other Powers on account of other crimes or offences committed within their respective jurisdictions , his extradition shall be granted to the Power whose claim is earliest in date , unless such claim is waived .
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Article 11
If sufficient evidence for the extradition be not produced within two months from the date of the apprehension of the fugitive , or within such further time as the High Contracting Party applied to , or the proper tribunal of such High Contracting Party , shall direct , the fugitive shall be set at liberty .
Article 12
All articles seized which were in the possession of the person to be surrendered at the time of his apprehension, and any articles that may serve as a proof of the crime or offence shall be given up when the extradition takes place , in so far as this may be permitted by the law of the High Contracting Party granting the extradition .
Article 13
All expenses connected with the extradition shall be borne by the High Contracting Party making the application .
Article 14
His Britannic Majesty may accede to the present Treaty on behalf of any of his Dominions hereafterereafter named- that is to say , the Dominion of Canada , the Com- onwealth of Australia ustralia including for this purpose Papua and Norfolk Island) the Dominion of New Zealand , the Union of South Africa , the Irish Free State , and Newfoundland and India . Such accession shall be effected by a notice to that effect given by the appropriate diplomatic representative of His Majesty at Washington which shall specify the authority to which the requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in the Dominion con- cerned, or India, as the case may be , shall be addressed. From the date when such notice comes into effect thethe territory of the Dominion concerned or of India shall be deemed to be territory of His Britannic Majesty for the purposes of the present Treaty .
The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in any of the above - mentioned Dominions or India , on behalf of which His Britan- nic Majesty has acceded , shall be made by the appropriate diplomatic or consular officer of the United States of America .
Eighter High Contracting Party may terminate this Treaty separately in res- pect of any of the above - mentioned Dominions or India. Such termination shall be effected by a notice given in accordance with the provisions of Article 18.
Any notice given under the first paragraph of this Article in respect of one of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions may include any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations , has been accepted by His Britan- nic Majesty , and which is being administered by the Government of the Dominion concerned; such territory shall , if so included , be deemed to be territory of His Britannic Majesty for the purposes of the present Treaty. Any notice given under the third paragraph of this Articlehis Article shall be aplicable to such mandated territory.
Article 15
The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in any territory of His Britannic Majesty other than Great Britain and Northern Ireland , the Channel Islands , or the Isle of Man , or the Dominions or India men- tioned in Article 14, shall beshall be made to the Governor , or chief authority , of such territory by the appropriate consular officer of the United States of America . of
Such requisition shall be dealt with by the competent authorities of such terri- tory; provided, nevertheless , that if an order for the committal of the fugitive criminal to prison to await surrender shall be made, the sald Governor or chief authority may , instead of issuing a warrant for the surrender of such fugitive , refer the matter to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .
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Article 16
This Treaty shall apply in the same manner as if they were Possessions of His Britannic Majesty to the following British Protectorates , that is to say , the Bechuanaland Protectorate , Gambia Protectorate , Kenya Protectorate , Nigeria Protectorate , Northern Rhodesia , Northern Territories of the Gold Coast , Nyasa- land , Sierra Leone Protectorate , Solomon Islands Protectorate , Somaliland Protec- torate, Swaziland, Uganda Protectorate and Zanzibar, and to the following terri- tories in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Britannic Majesty , that is to say, Cameroons under British man- date, Togoland under British mandate , and the Tanganyika Territory .
Article 17
If after the signature of the present Treaty it is considered advisable to extend its provisions to any British Protectorates other than those mentioned in the preceding Article or to any British - protected State , or to any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Britannic Majesty, other than those mandatedmandated territories mentioned in Articles 14 and 16 , the stipulations of Articles 14 and 15 shall be deemed to apply to such Protectorates or States or mandated territories from the date and in the manner prescribed in the notes to be exchanged for the purpose of effecting such exten- sion.
Article 18
The present Treaty shall come into force ten days after its publication , in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties . Itmay be terminated by either of the High Contracting Parties by a notice not exceeding one year and not less than six months .
In the absence of an express provision to that effect , a notice given under the first paragraph of this Article shall not affect the operation of the Treaty as between the United States of America and any territory in respect of which notice of accession has been given under Article 14.
The present Treaty shall be ratified , and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible .
On the coming into force of the present Treaty the provisions of Article 10 of the Treaty of the 9th August , 1842 , of the Convention of the 12th July , 1889 , of the supplementary Convention of the 13th December , 1900 , and of the supple- mentary Convention of the 12th April , 1905 relative to extradition , shall cease to have effect , save that in the case of each of the Dominions and India mentioned in Article 14 , those provisions shall remain in force until such Dominion or India shall have acceded to the present Treaty in accordance with Article 14 or until replaced by other treaty arrangements" :
Now, therefore , in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Extra- dition Act , 1962 ( 34 of 1962 ) , the Central Government hereby directs that the provisions of the said Act , other than Chapter III thereof , shall apply to the United States of America with effect from the 1st day of April, 1966 .
SURENDRA SINH ALIRAJPUR , Director .
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