Learn to live with new normal: NaiduUK rejects extradition request for Dawood aide Tiger Hanif
ndon, May 18
India’s request for the extradition of Tiger Hanif, an alleged aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim wanted in India in connection with two bomb blasts in Surat in 1993, has been turned down by the UK government, official sources have confirmed.
Hanif, whose full name is Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel, was traced to a grocery store in Bolton, Greater Manchester, and arrested by Scotland Yard on an extradition warrant in February 2010.
The 57-year-old since lost a number of legal bids to stay in Britain, claiming that he will be tortured in India.
However, his final bid to then Home Secretary Sajid Javid succeeded as the Pakistani-origin minister refused the request last year.
“We can confirm that the extradition request for Hanif Patel was refused by the then Home Secretary and Patel was discharged by the court in August 2019,” a UK Home Office source said on Sunday. Hanif’s extradition to India was first ordered by then Home Secretary Theresa May in June 2012. — PTI
