MALIK SHARIEF-UD-DIN, J.

( 1 ) IN pursuance of the requisition from the State of Thailand for extradition of Mr. Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj for facing trial and punishment in Thailand for the alleged offences of murder, attempt to murder, theft, receiving stolen property, forgery and using forged documents in Thailand, the Government of India issued an order dated 10111-1-1985 requesting Mr. Subhash Wason, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Delhi, to hold an enquiry into the alleged offences and to submit a report under section 7 of the Extradition Act, 1962. The fugitive offender was brought before him and after holding an enquiry as envisage under section 7 of the aforesaid Act a report dated 28-9-1985 was submitted to the Government of India holding that there was a prima-facie case against the fugitive offender. In all there were five cases but Shri D. Goverdhan, counsel representing the Government of Thailand, made a statement that he does not want to press the extradition on the basis of all the cases and he sought extradition mainly in two cases which are known as "lapthornes" case and "wang NOI" case.

( 2 ) IN the WANG NOI CASE the allegations against the fugitive offender are th

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