Toyah Cordingley homicide: Court docket permits Rajwinder Singh’s extradition to Australia
NEW DELHI: A Delhi courtroom has allowed extradition of Indian-origin Rajwinder Singh, accused of killing a girl at a seaside in Queensland in 2018, from India to Australia to face trial, media experiences stated.
Singh, 38, had moved an software in Delhi’s Patiala Home courtroom in search of to offer his consent for extradition to Australia earlier this month.
In keeping with ABC Information, after courtroom’s approval, Singh’s extradition request must be signed off by the Ministry of Exterior Affairs.
This might occur throughout the month, however by the top of February on the newest, in line with attorneys, it reported.
Singh, who had earlier wished to go to Australia and contest the case there, claimed that he didn’t kill Toyah Cordingley.
“Australian Police ought to examine the case,” he stated. Cordingley was strolling her canine on Wangetti Seaside, 40 km north of Cairns in Queensland, when Singh allegedly killed her in 2018.
Round three months in the past, the Australian Police had declared 1,000,000 greenback reward for any info resulting in his arrest.Singh, who initially hails from Buttar Kalan in Punjab, used to work as a nurse in Innisfail, Queensland, IANS reported earlier.
“On November 4, through Twitter, the Australian Excessive Fee had declared a reward of 1 million Australian {dollars} on the arrest of Singh, an Indian-origin Australian citizen, who had dedicated the grotesque homicide of an Australian lady on October 21, 2018 in Queensland and had been absconding ever since,” stated police.
In keeping with a senior police official, the Interpol had additionally issued Crimson Nook Discover (RCN) towards the accused and the CBI had received a non-bailable warrant, below the Extradition Act, issued towards him from the Patiala Home courtroom on November 21, 2022.
Singh was arrested from close to GT-Karnal street in Delhi on November 26 final yr by the Delhi Police’s Particular Cell.