High Court extradites Indian wanted for plotting murder to US

The Prague High Court has agreed to extradite Indian citizen Nikhil Gupta to the US, where he faces charges of conspiring to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York, Seznam Zpravy reported on Thursday, citing the judicial database Infosoud. The extradition still requires the approval of Justice Minister Pavel Blažek.

Gupta was detained in Prague in June on the basis of a US-Czech extradition treaty. According to Seznam Zpravy, he is now in Prague's Pankrác prison. The High Court upheld the decision of the first instance court in a closed hearing this week.