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3 THE INDIAN EXPRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2016 GUJARAT WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM GUVNL, TORRENT POWER T ARIFF SET TO JUMP Just three months after electricity charges were slashed, both Torrent Power and GU- VNL have increased their FPPPA (Fuel Power Purchase Price Agreement) charges for three months from October-December, 2016. GUVNL has increased FPPPA charges by 9 paise to Rs 1.53 per unit, while Torrent pushed it by 10 paise to 90 paise per unit. KAMAAL SAIYED SURAT, OCTOBER 17 DELHI CHIEF Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal re- turned to the national capital Monday morning, thus can- celling his several scheduled meeting for the day. He was scheduled to return in the evening after holding a se- ries of political meetings at Circuit House here. He had ar- rived in the state Friday evening. Kejriwal also could not meet the family members of Bhavin Khunt, a Patidar youth who had committed suicide during the quota agitation. “Due to the ill health of Arvind Kejriwal, his four-day tour to Gujarat has been shortened... He left for Delhi in the morning from Surat Airport. We have sent messages of apol- ogy to those interested guests who were scheduled to meet Kejriwal at Circuit House,” said AAP co-convener in south Gujarat Kishor Desai. PRIME MINISTER ’ S GIFT Adaptive cycles for diffrently-abled, to be distributed by Prime Minster Narendra Modi on October 22, arrive at Vadodara's Navlakhi ground on Monday. Bhuprendra Rana VIBRANT GUJARAT SUMMIT EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE AHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 17 AT A TIME when a section of the industry in Gujarat has sought a blanket ban of Chinese goods, the state government held a road- show in China to attract investors for the 2017 Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ summit sched- uled to be held in January. On Monday, the leader of the state government delegation, Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Cooperation department, Sanjay Prasad addressed Chinese officials in Beijing and made pre- sentations about investment op- portunities that exists in Gujarat. In his address, he also explained a number of projects, including the importance of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and how Dholera could emerge as a key region for industrial activities of Chinese businesses. Prasad also invited Chinese of- ficials to for the Vibrant Summit. This visit to China comes at a time when an industry body Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) recently issued a circular asking its members and general public at large to boycott goods manufactured by Chinese companies. Seeking foreign investments from China is not new for Gujarat. In September 2014, Gujarat gov- ernment and People’s Republic of China signed investment propos- als of over Rs 9,000 crore in pres- ence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Two “facilitation agree- ments” for establishing sister province-state relations between Guangdong and Gujarat and be- tween Guangzhou City (capital of Guangdong) and Ahmedabad, were also signed. GCCI had recently asked its members and general public to boycott Chinese goods GOVT PLANS TO INTRODUCE NCERT BOOKS RITU SHARMA AHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 17 THE FUTURE of 47-year-old Gujarat State School Textbook Board (GSSTB) appears to be uncertain with the state gov- ernment deciding to introduce the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) books in its schools in a phased manner. After deliberations at the top level, a pilot project — with the introduction of NCERT books in Class XI — was launched in September in 57 English-medium schools affil- iated to the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB). Currently, the NCERT books have been introduced for English, mathematics and sci- ence subjects only. The pilot project would be subjected to its first evaluation in December, before the annual analysis at the end of this aca- demic session in March 2017. In view of the government’s move, the fate of Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training (GCERT), which along with GSSTB is re- sponsible for framing curricula, also hangs fire, but it also plays arole in research and training. The government decided to introduce NCERT books to pro- vide uniformity in syllabi and a broader platform for students belonging to its schools who find it difficult to match their counterparts from CBSE schools in the national compet- itive entrance examinations for engineering and medical courses. “This major change, once implemented across the state, will not only raise concerns over GSSTB’s existence, but also reduce the functioning area of NCERT’s state counterpart GCERT that shares the respon- sibility of framing curricula for Gujarat schools,” revealed a senior education department official. GSSTB director H N Chavda said, “We are ready of any kind of change. Once NCERT books are implemented, the textbook board and GCERT would not be left with any academic work... Translation for Gujarati medium schools and re-print- ing of books will be the job left for these two bodies.” Of the 57 schools where the pilot project has been launched, nearly 80 per cent falls under urban areas of the state. The 13 schools in rural ar- eas are all in Ahmedabad, in- cluding “affluent” localities such as Thaltej, Bopal, Satellite, Ghatlodiya, Drive-in road, Jivrajpark and Maninagar. “We are hoping to bring in a change by providing students with NCERT books and giving them a national perspective,” said deputy chairman of GSH- SEB R R Thakkar. GSSTB brings ‘question bank’ for science students Ahmedabad: On completion of 47 years of its establishment, the Gujarat State School Textbook Board (GSSTB) for the first time has prepared a “question bank”, which will be released by Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama in Gandhinagar on October 20. A 70-member team worked for two years on this project. “To increase the quality of school education, the GSSTB is also in- volved in framing supplemen- tary literature. The result of this activity is framing and publish- ing of this question bank. The literature is aimed at science students to help them excel in national competitive examina- tions like JEE/ NEET/ GUJCET/ AIPMT/AIIMS. This publication will remove all perplexities and confusions of science stu- dents incompetitive exams,” GSSTB director H N Chavda stated. All Gujarati-medium science stream schools will be given one set of these question banks (each in chemistry, biol- ogy, physics, mathematics- part I and II) free of cost. ENS EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE GANDHINAGAR, OCTOBER 17 SPEAKER OF the Gujarat Assembly Ramanlal Vora Monday held a day-long seminar of for- mer and current MLAs from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community on various welfare schemes for the community and their effective implementation through budgetary alloca- tions. Issues that were raised during the meeting included the Gujarat gov- ernment not tabling the Sanjay Prasad inquiry re- port into the 2012 Thangadh police firing which resulted in three Dalit deaths. This was for the first time that the Assembly Speaker organised a seminar of such a nature. Congress MLA Shailesh Parmar said that around 20 former and current MLAs from BJP and Congress participated in the sem- inar. Similar seminars would also be organised for the welfare of Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) in coming days. Congress MLA from Vadgam constituency Manilal Vaghela said, “The seminar was called by the Speaker to give suggestions on imple- mentation of various SC welfare schemes in Gujarat and for their effective implementation through budgetary allocations. Seminar of such nature is a good move since it has been organised well in advance before the govern- ment departments make preparations for the next year’s budget.” “The suggestions made during the semi- nar will be forwarded to the state government for its consideration,” said Vaghela. According to him, one of the important suggestions made during the seminar was to make uniform the financial limit for SCs to avail benefits of various welfare schemes of the state government. “Recently, the government promulgated an ordinance to give reservation to economi- cally weaker sections of the upper castes, while setting the annual income limit at Rs 6 lakh... But, for the SC community, the an- nual income limit varies for various schemes and it is much lower than Rs 6 lakh. So, I suggested to make it uniform and bring it to Rs 6 lakh per year,” Vaghela said. BJP MLA R M Patel also made various suggestions for welfare of the SC com- munity, including filling va- cant posts in the Social Justice & Empowerment Department and making available writings and speeches of B R Ambedkar to general public by ensuring ad- equate printing of books on him. “Among other issues, I had raised the is- sue of Sanjay Prasad report which the govern- ment is yet to table before the Assembly even after four years. Following that, it was said that a letter will be written to the Home Department of the Gujarat government with regard to the tabling of the report,” said Congress’s Parmar. Three Dalit youths were killed in a police firing at Thangadh town of Surendranagar dis- trict in September 2012. Weapons used by po- lice in the firing included AK-47 assault rifle. The Gujarat government had then constituted a one-member panel of the then principal sec- retary (Social Justice & Empowerment Department) Sanjay Prasad to inquire into the episode. Prasad had submitted his report to the government, but it was not made public by the government. Speaker holds seminar on welfare schemes for Dalits Ramanlal Vora THANGADH DEATHS Can’t make inquiry report public, for now: Govt to HC EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE AHMEDABAD, MONDAY 17 OPPOSING THEpetition by the fa- ther of a Dalit victim seeking re- port of an IAS officer into the killing of three Dalit youths in Thangadh police firing in 2012, the state government on Monday told the Gujarat High Court that the “report is under consideration of the state government.” The state government filed an affidavit through Kishor Desai, section officer, home department, saying that the petition is not maintainable mostly due to tech- nical reason. The petitioner, Valjibhai Rathod, 42, a resident of Ambedkarnagar, Thangadh, has sought the report through the pe- tition saying that the IAS officer Sanjay Prasad inquiry into the case doesn’t fall under Commission of Inquiries Act and hence the gov- ernment should make the report public. The affidavit states, “It is re- spectfully submitted that the re- port of Sanjay Prasad was sought to be procured during question- ing in the Assembly, but as the re- port was under consideration of the state government, submission thereof and discussion was not permitted. Presently also the re- port is under consideration of the state government.” Referring to the various other pleas in the High Court on killing of three Dalit youths issue which have been mentioned in the peti- tion, the state affidavit states that “those petitions are for either transfer of investigation or for fur- ther investigations is apparent on going through the prayers quoted by the petitioner. The present pe- tition even otherwise would be for a different cause of action.” According to the government affidavit, the petitioner had filed an RTI seeking the report which is pending with the statutory au- thority and therefore, the petition is not maintainable. The govern- ment has said instead of straight- way coming to High Court, the pe- titioner should have filed an appeal before the appropriate au- thority. In August, the government had announced formation of a special investigation team to probe the killings. The move came following demands raised by Dalit organisations pressing for a CBI in- vestigation into the case. The SIT is led by Rajkot police commis- sioner Anupam Singh Gehlot. Scouting for investors, state officials woo China Cong to revive 1971 war memories to counter BJP chest-thumping SYED KHALIQUE AHMED AHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 17 IN Abid to counter BJP’s chest-thumping over Army’s surgi- cal strikes along the LoC, the Congress’s unit in Gujarat on Monday decided to revive the memories of India’s success- ful campaign in the 1971 war against Pakistan under the leadership of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi. Congress has made grand plans for a year-long celebra- tions to mark the 100 birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi, starting November 19. In the run-up to the 2017 Assembly polls, the Congress would inform the younger generation that how under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, the Army dealt a crushing defeat to Pakistan by forcing its 90,000 per- sonnel to surrender to the Indian Army and “snatching” East Pakistan to create Bangladesh, and thus changing the map of the world in 1971. A decision in this regard was taken at the state party’s executive committee meeting here on Monday, said Gujarat Congress chief Bharatsinh Solanki. State textbook board future hangs fire 2002 POST-GODHRA RIOTS Ode village riots accused to be extradited from UK today PRESS TRUST OF INDIA LONDON, OCTOBER 17 A 40-YEAR-OLD man wanted in India in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra ri- ots in Gujarat will be extradited from the UK on Tuesday to stand trial in India, the Indian High Commission here said on Monday. Samir Vinubhai Patel was arrested by Scotland Yard in west London in August on a Red Corner Notice issued by the Indian authorities. His extradition order was signed by UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd on September 22 and now the “surrender arrangements” have been finalised. It marks the first extradition from the UK since the signing of the India-UK Extradition Treaty in 1992. “Following Government of India’s re- quest for extradition, Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel, an Indian national, is being extra- dited on 18th October 2016 to face trial in India,” the High Commission said in its statement. “Patel is facing trial in connection with post-Godhra riots in India in 2002. He is charged with the offence under Section 302 of the IPC, along with 43 other ac- cused. The offences include being mem- ber of an unlawful assembly; rioting and murder. The accused was arrested in India and was on bail and after jumping bail had escaped to the UK,” the statement added. A team of officials from India will take him into their custody to fly back to India on Tuesday. Kejriwal cancels several meetings, leaves for Delhi early
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POWER TARIFF SET TO JUMPJust three months after electricity charges were slashed, both Torrent Power and GU-VNL have increased their FPPPA (Fuel Power Purchase Price Agreement) charges forthree months from October-December, 2016. GUVNL has increased FPPPA chargesby 9 paise to Rs 1.53 per unit, while Torrent pushed it by 10 paise to 90 paise per unit.
KAMAAL SAIYEDSURAT, OCTOBER 17
DELHI CHIEF Minister and AAPconvener Arvind Kejriwal re-turned to the national capitalMonday morning, thus can-celling his several scheduledmeeting for the day.
He was scheduled to returnin the evening after holding a se-ries of political meetings atCircuit House here. He had ar-rived in the state Friday evening.
Kejriwal also could not meetthe family members of BhavinKhunt, a Patidar youth who hadcommitted suicide during thequota agitation. “Due to the illhealth of Arvind Kejriwal, hisfour-day tour to Gujarat has beenshortened... He left for Delhi inthe morning from Surat Airport.We have sent messages of apol-ogy to those interested guestswho were scheduled to meetKejriwal at Circuit House,” saidAAP co-convener in southGujarat Kishor Desai.
PRIME MINISTER’S GIFTAdaptive cycles for diffrently-abled, to be distributed by Prime Minster Narendra Modi on October 22, arrive at Vadodara'sNavlakhi ground on Monday. Bhuprendra Rana
VIBRANT GUJARAT SUMMIT
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICEAHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 17
AT A TIME when a section of theindustry in Gujarat has sought ablanket ban ofChinese goods, thestate government held a road-show in China to attract investorsfor the 2017 Vibrant GujaratGlobal Investors’ summit sched-uled to be held in January.
On Monday, the leader of thestate government delegation,Principal Secretary, Agricultureand Cooperation department,Sanjay Prasad addressed Chineseofficials in Beijing and made pre-sentations about investment op-portunities that exists in Gujarat.In his address, he also explained anumber ofprojects, including theimportance of Delhi-MumbaiIndustrial Corridor (DMIC) andhow Dholera could emerge as akey region for industrial activitiesof Chinese businesses.
Prasad also invited Chinese of-ficials to for the Vibrant Summit.This visit to China comes at a time
when an industry body GujaratChamber of Commerce andIndustry (GCCI) recently issued acircular asking its members andgeneral public at large to boycottgoods manufactured by Chinesecompanies.
Seeking foreign investmentsfrom China is not new for Gujarat.In September 2014, Gujarat gov-ernment and People’s Republic ofChina signed investment propos-als of over Rs 9,000 crore in pres-ence of Prime Minister NarendraModi and Chinese President XiJinping. Two “facilitation agree-ments” for establishing sisterprovince-state relations betweenGuangdong and Gujarat and be-tween Guangzhou City (capital ofGuangdong) and Ahmedabad,were also signed.
GCCI had recentlyasked its members andgeneral public toboycott Chinese goods
GOVT PLANS TO INTRODUCE NCERT BOOKS
RITU SHARMAAHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 17
THE FUTURE of 47-year-oldGujarat State School TextbookBoard (GSSTB) appears to beuncertain with the state gov-ernment deciding to introducethe National Council ofEducational Research andTraining (NCERT) books in itsschools in a phased manner.
After deliberations at thetop level, a pilot project — withthe introduction of NCERTbooks in Class XI — waslaunched in September in 57English-medium schools affil-iated to the Gujarat Secondaryand Higher SecondaryEducation Board (GSHSEB).Currently, the NCERT bookshave been introduced forEnglish, mathematics and sci-ence subjects only.
The pilot project would be
subjected to its first evaluationin December, before the annualanalysis at the end of this aca-
demic session in March 2017. In view of the government’s
move, the fate of Gujarat
Council of EducationalResearch and Training (GCERT),which along with GSSTB is re-sponsible for framing curricula,also hangs fire, but it also playsarole in research and training.
The government decided tointroduce NCERT books to pro-vide uniformity in syllabi and abroader platform for studentsbelonging to its schools whofind it difficult to match theircounterparts from CBSEschools in the national compet-itive entrance examinations forengineering and medicalcourses.
“This major change, onceimplemented across the state,will not only raise concernsover GSSTB’s existence, but alsoreduce the functioning area ofNCERT’s state counterpartGCERT that shares the respon-sibility of framing curricula forGujarat schools,” revealed asenior education department
official. GSSTB director H N Chavda
said, “We are ready of any kindof change. Once NCERT booksare implemented, the textbookboard and GCERT would not beleft with any academic work...Translation for Gujaratimedium schools and re-print-ing of books will be the job leftfor these two bodies.”
Of the 57 schools where thepilot project has beenlaunched, nearly 80 per centfalls under urban areas of thestate. The 13 schools in rural ar-eas are all in Ahmedabad, in-cluding “affluent” localitiessuch as Thaltej, Bopal, Satellite,Ghatlodiya, Drive-in road,Jivrajpark and Maninagar.
“We are hoping to bring in achange by providing studentswith NCERT books and givingthem a national perspective,”said deputy chairman of GSH-SEB R R Thakkar.
GSSTB brings ‘question bank’ for science students Ahmedabad:On completion of47 years of its establishment,the Gujarat State SchoolTextbook Board (GSSTB) forthe first time has prepared a“question bank”, which will bereleased by Education MinisterBhupendrasinh Chudasama inGandhinagar on October 20. A70-member team worked fortwo years on this project. “Toincrease the quality of schooleducation, the GSSTB is also in-volved in framing supplemen-tary literature. The result ofthisactivity is framing and publish-
ing of this question bank. Theliterature is aimed at sciencestudents to help them excel innational competitive examina-tions like JEE/ NEET/ GUJCET/AIPMT/AIIMS. This publicationwill remove all perplexitiesand confusions of science stu-dents incompetitive exams,”GSSTB director H N Chavdastated. All Gujarati-mediumscience stream schools will begiven one set of these questionbanks (each in chemistry, biol-ogy, physics, mathematics-part I and II) free of cost. ENS
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICEGANDHINAGAR, OCTOBER 17
SPEAKER OF the Gujarat Assembly RamanlalVora Monday held a day-long seminar of for-mer and current MLAs from the ScheduledCaste (SC) community onvarious welfare schemes forthe community and theireffective implementationthrough budgetary alloca-tions. Issues that wereraised during the meetingincluded the Gujarat gov-ernment not tabling theSanjay Prasad inquiry re-port into the 2012Thangadh police firingwhich resulted in threeDalit deaths.
This was for the first time that theAssembly Speaker organised a seminar ofsuch a nature. Congress MLA Shailesh Parmarsaid that around 20 former and current MLAsfrom BJP and Congress participated in the sem-inar.
Similar seminars would also be organisedfor the welfare of Scheduled Tribes (STs) andOther Backward Classes (OBC) in coming days.
Congress MLA from Vadgam constituencyManilal Vaghela said, “The seminar was calledby the Speaker to give suggestions on imple-mentation of various SC welfare schemes inGujarat and for their effective implementationthrough budgetary allocations. Seminar ofsuch nature is a good move since it has beenorganised well in advance before the govern-ment departments make preparations for thenext year’s budget.”
“The suggestions made during the semi-nar will be forwarded to the state governmentfor its consideration,” said Vaghela.
According to him, one of the important
suggestions made during the seminar was tomake uniform the financial limit for SCs to availbenefits ofvarious welfare schemes ofthe stategovernment.
“Recently, the government promulgatedan ordinance to give reservation to economi-cally weaker sections ofthe upper castes, while
setting the annual incomelimit at Rs 6 lakh... But, forthe SC community, the an-nual income limit varies forvarious schemes and it ismuch lower than Rs 6 lakh.So, I suggested to make ituniform and bring it to Rs 6lakh per year,” Vaghela said.
BJP MLA R M Patel alsomade various suggestionsfor welfare of the SC com-munity, including filling va-cant posts in the Social
Justice & Empowerment Department andmaking available writings and speeches of BR Ambedkar to general public by ensuring ad-equate printing of books on him.
“Among other issues, I had raised the is-sue ofSanjay Prasad report which the govern-ment is yet to table before the Assembly evenafter four years. Following that, it was said thata letter will be written to the HomeDepartment ofthe Gujarat government withregard to the tabling of the report,” saidCongress’s Parmar.
Three Dalit youths were killed in a policefiring at Thangadh town ofSurendranagar dis-trict in September 2012. Weapons used by po-lice in the firing included AK-47 assault rifle.The Gujarat government had then constituteda one-member panel ofthe then principal sec-retary (Social Justice & EmpowermentDepartment) Sanjay Prasad to inquire into theepisode. Prasad had submitted his report tothe government, but it was not made publicby the government.
Speaker holds seminar onwelfare schemes for Dalits
Ramanlal Vora
THANGADH DEATHS
Can’t makeinquiryreport public,for now:Govt to HC
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICEAHMEDABAD, MONDAY 17
OPPOSING THEpetition by the fa-ther of a Dalit victim seeking re-port of an IAS officer into thekilling of three Dalit youths inThangadh police firing in 2012, thestate government on Monday toldthe Gujarat High Court that the“report is under consideration ofthe state government.”
The state government filed anaffidavit through Kishor Desai,section officer, home department,saying that the petition is notmaintainable mostly due to tech-nical reason. The petitioner,Valjibhai Rathod, 42, a resident ofAmbedkarnagar, Thangadh, hassought the report through the pe-tition saying that the IAS officerSanjay Prasad inquiry into the casedoesn’t fall under Commission ofInquiries Act and hence the gov-ernment should make the reportpublic.
The affidavit states, “It is re-spectfully submitted that the re-port of Sanjay Prasad was soughtto be procured during question-ing in the Assembly, but as the re-port was under consideration ofthe state government, submissionthereof and discussion was notpermitted. Presently also the re-port is under consideration ofthestate government.”
Referring to the various otherpleas in the High Court on killingof three Dalit youths issue whichhave been mentioned in the peti-tion, the state affidavit states that“those petitions are for eithertransfer ofinvestigation or for fur-ther investigations is apparent ongoing through the prayers quotedby the petitioner. The present pe-tition even otherwise would be fora different cause of action.”
According to the governmentaffidavit, the petitioner had filedan RTI seeking the report which ispending with the statutory au-thority and therefore, the petitionis not maintainable. The govern-ment has said instead ofstraight-way coming to High Court, the pe-titioner should have filed anappeal before the appropriate au-thority.
In August, the governmenthad announced formation of aspecial investigation team toprobe the killings. The move camefollowing demands raised by Dalitorganisations pressing for a CBI in-vestigation into the case. The SITis led by Rajkot police commis-sioner Anupam Singh Gehlot.
Scouting for investors,state officials woo China
Cong to revive 1971 warmemories to counter BJPchest-thumping
SYED KHALIQUE AHMEDAHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 17
IN Abid to counter BJP’s chest-thumping over Army’s surgi-cal strikes along the LoC, the Congress’s unit in Gujarat onMonday decided to revive the memories of India’s success-ful campaign in the 1971 war against Pakistan under theleadership of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
Congress has made grand plans for a year-long celebra-tions to mark the 100 birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi,starting November 19. In the run-up to the 2017 Assemblypolls, the Congress would inform the younger generationthat how under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, the Armydealt a crushing defeat to Pakistan by forcing its 90,000 per-sonnel to surrender to the Indian Army and “snatching” EastPakistan to create Bangladesh, and thus changing the mapof the world in 1971.
A decision in this regard wastaken at the state party’s executivecommittee meeting here onMonday, said Gujarat Congresschief Bharatsinh Solanki.
State textbook board future hangs fire
2002 POST-GODHRA RIOTS
Ode village riots accused to be extradited from UK today
PRESS TRUST OF INDIALONDON, OCTOBER 17
A 40-YEAR-OLD man wanted in India inconnection with the 2002 post-Godhra ri-ots in Gujarat will be extradited from theUK on Tuesday to stand trial in India, theIndian High Commission here said onMonday.
Samir Vinubhai Patel was arrested byScotland Yard in west London in Auguston a Red Corner Notice issued by the
Indian authorities. His extradition order was signed by UK
Home Secretary Amber Rudd onSeptember 22 and now the “surrenderarrangements” have been finalised.
It marks the first extradition from theUK since the signing of the India-UKExtradition Treaty in 1992.
“Following Government of India’s re-quest for extradition, Samirbhai VinubhaiPatel, an Indian national, is being extra-dited on 18th October 2016 to face trial inIndia,” the High Commission said in its
statement.“Patel is facing trial in connection with
post-Godhra riots in India in 2002. He ischarged with the offence under Section302 of the IPC, along with 43 other ac-cused. The offences include being mem-ber of an unlawful assembly; rioting andmurder. The accused was arrested in Indiaand was on bail and after jumping bail hadescaped to the UK,” the statement added.
A team ofofficials from India will takehim into their custody to fly back to Indiaon Tuesday.
Kejriwal cancels severalmeetings, leavesfor Delhi early
