Constitutional Court postpones extradition of India’s Nikhil Gupta to US

Czechia will not for the present time extradite Indian national Nikhil Gupta to the US, where he faces charges of conspiring to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York.

The extradition, which was approved by the Prague High Court in January, has been postponed until the Constitutional Court delivers a ruling on the complaint filed by the businessman.

Gupta's indictment was announced last year by New York prosecutors, who said the plot was to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York. The accused faces up to 20 years in prison. He was arrested at Prague airport at the end of June last year.