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Hannah Foster murder: Lawyer says no evidence
New Delhi: A day after the parents of British teenager Hannah Foster, raped and murdered allegedly by a migrant Indian Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, pleaded New Delhi to speed up the extradition proceedings of the accused, his lawyer said on Wednesday that there were not enough evidences against him. A lower court in capital New Delhi deferred the case till February 21. Hannah's body was found in an undergrowth on the outskirts of the city of Southampton in March 2003. Kohli, a truck driver in Britain, accused of abducting, raping and killing Hannah was nabbed from a remote village bordering Nepal after a tip-off from a local. Kohli had escaped from England two days after Foster's body was found and was hiding in India. He was arrested in July 2004 from Kalimpong in eastern India and facing extradition to Britain to be be tired for charges of rape and murder.
C.S. Bakshi, Kohli's lawyer, said, "As of now we have almost everything before us at least the part of the story which the British investigation agencies have to tell us. What has come forth is the post mortem report and the post mortem report does not reveal injuries on certain organs on the body and on certain cases where there are allegations of kidnapping, then rape and then murder. Then she (Hannah Foster) was seventeen and-a-half-year-old. There is nothing linking this boy to the other offences and so we have taken up these issues in the bail petition."
Hannah's parents Trevor and Hilary Foster had been pleading for Kohli's
extradition to London and are here again. The distressed parents had last
been in India in 2004 appealing to the general public for information
to trace Kohli. The Foster's say the 18-month wait since has been agonizing
for the family. The distraught parents have written letters to the Indian
President A.P.J Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Chief
Justice to help simplify the extradition. Hannah's mother has also written
an emotional appeal to Kohli, housed in a jail in New Delhi, urging him
to give up resistance to extradition.
-Feb 15, 2006
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