NRI murder suspect traced in Britain
London, September 2
A 62-year-old man, wanted in India on the suspicion of kidnapping and murdering his friend and business partner Ranjit Singh Power in Punjab last year, has been tracked to his house in Britain.
Baldev Singh Deol, who was seen at his residence in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region of England, cannot be arrested because the extradition papers are yet to be processed by the Indian authorities, the UK police said yesterday.
Deol is wanted by the Punjab Police in connection with the murder of 54-year-old Power, a hotelier from Wolverhampton who went missing on a visit to India in May 2015.
While his body is yet to be recovered, his disappearance is being treated as murder.
“This is an Indian police investigation. As yet, the West Midlands police haven’t received any formal request for extradition proceedings,” a West Midlands spokesperson said.
Taxi driver Sukhdev Singh is in custody after the police said he had confessed to the killing, but Punjab cops want to arrest Deol to question him on his alleged role in the murder. “Of course, I’m in the UK. Don’t worry about it darling, I’m here,” Deol told The Times newspaper on the phone.
He has an Interpol arrest warrant against him on the charges of kidnapping, murder and disappearance of evidence of offence committed, but an extradition notice submitted to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is yet to be processed. — PTI
