New Delhi, Oct 15: In its efforts to garner global support for easing deportation and extradition laws, India is playing host to the "Third International Conference on Fugitives", which gets underway today. The conference has been jointly organised by the CBI and the Interpol.
The three-day conference, to be inaugurated by Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, would have participants from nearly 50 countries. However, Pakistan has preferred to stay away from the meet. The participating countries would deliberate on setting up of special fugitive units, their structure and functioning apart from discussing issues of extradition, deportation and legal value of red corner notices, a CBI spokesman said.
CBI director P C Sharma has been the pioneer in campaigning for easing of deportation and extradition laws so that little scope was left for fugitives to jump from one country to another. The issue of fugitives was drawing global attention in view of the increasing activities of terrorists and organized crimes but still some countries were giving unofficial political patronage to wanted criminals. Bureau Report