Indian Extradition Act, 1962
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the extradition of fugitive criminals and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Definitions 2 judgments
- 3 Application of Act 4 judgments
- 4 Requisition for surrender
- 5 Order for magisterial inquiry 2 judgments
- 6 Issue of warrant for arrest
- 7 Procedure before magistrate 1 judgment
- 8 Surrender of fugitive criminal
- 9 Power of magistrate to issue warrant of arrest in certain cases
- 10 Receipt in evidence of exhibits, depositions and other documents and authentication thereof
- 11 Chapter not to apply to commonwealth countries to which Chapter III applies
- 12 Application of Chapter
- 13 Liability of fugitive criminals from foreign States to be apprehended and returned
- 14 Endorsed and provisional warrants
- 15 Endorsed warrant for apprehension of fugitive criminal
- 16 Provisional warrant for apprehension of fugitive criminal
- 17 Dealing with fugitive criminal when apprehended
- 18 Return of fugitive criminal by warrant
- 19 Mode of requisition or form of warrant for the surrender or return to India of accused or convicted person who is in a foreign State or Commonwealth country
- 20 Conveyance of accused or convicted person surrendered or returned
- 21 Accused or convicted person surrendered or returned by foreign State not to be tried for certain offence 5 judgments
- 22 Liability of fugitive criminals to be arrested and surrendered or returned
- 23 Jurisdiction as to offences committed at sea or in air
- 24 Discharge of person apprehended if not surrendered or returned within two months
- 25 Release of persons arrested on bail
- 26 Abetment of extradition offences
- 27 Lawfulness of, and retaking on escape from, custody under warrants
- 28 Property found on fugitive criminal
- 29 Power of Central Government to discharge any fugitive criminal
- 30 Simultaneous requisitions
- 31 Restrictions on surrender
- 32 Sections 29 and 31 to apply without any modification thereof
- 33 Act not to affect the Foreigners Act, 1946
- 34 Extra territorial jurisdiction
- 34A Prosecution on refusal to extradition
- 34B Provisional arrest
- 34C Provision of life imprisonment for death penalty 1 judgment
- 35 Notified orders and notifications to be laid before Parliament
- 36 Power to make rules
- 37 Repeals and savings
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