Onboard/Dhaka, July 8(ANI): Referring to refusal by a Danish court to extradite Danish national Kim Davy aka Neils Holck, the prime accused in the 1995 Purulia arms drop case, on the basis of human rights violations, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Friday said that India believed in rule of law, human rights and dignity.
The Copenhagen High Court has rejected New Delhi's application to extradite Davy fearing that he would be exposed to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in India.
"We are an open society. We are a transparent society. We believe in rule of law and we believe in human dignity," Krishna told journalists while returning from Bangladesh.
"So, there is no reason for either the Danish government or the Danish court to feel that the human rights in India are being relegated to the background," he added.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has accused Davy as the person behind arms drop near Anand Marg ashram in West Bengal's Purulia District.
It also accused Davy for conspiring to procure a huge quantity of arms and ammunition and to traffic it illegally into Indian territory for the purpose of waging war against India.
In course of investigation, the CBI had revealed that an aircraft AN-26 having call sign YLLDB had flown over the sky at West Bengal's Jhalda Police Station on the night of 17 and 18 December 1995, while it was coming from Varanasi to Calcutta and dropped huge quantity of arms and ammunition.
The immigration authorities at the Sahara International Airport in Mumbai, where it was forcefully landed on December 22, 1995, detained the crewmembers of the aircraft-Peter Bleach and five other Latavian citizens-Alexender Klichin, Igor Moskvitine, Oleg Gaidach, Evgueni Antimenko and Igor Timmerman.
Davy, who was said to be in the aircraft, managed to escape from the airport.
The investigators recovered several articles such as arms, ammunition, laptop and brief case of Davy, G.P.S. flight data recorder, Cockpit Voice Recorder, Velocity height gravity recorder from the aircraft.
On conclusion of trial, all the six accused persons were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 25,000/- each under section 121A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and for violating Explosives Substances Act, 1908. (ANI)
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