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Monday, November 10, 2014

New Delhi: The Centre on Monday told the Delhi High Court that there is a “prima facie” case against Indian Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl during his stay in USA in 2004, warranting his extradition.

The submission made before Justice Pratibha Rani against accused Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul also states that the present “petition being without merits and deserves to be dismissed at the threshold”.

“The contention raised by the fugitive criminal (FC) that the requesting state (USA) has sought extradition of the FC on the basis of second amended complaint and the first complaint is not there, so it is irrelevant for the purpose of present proceedings…

“The fact of the matter is that USA has sent all relevant documents in accordance with treaty and therefore, Extradition Magistrate is not obliged to go into other extraneous details for…