Bail denied to Polish fugitive
A Polish fugitive, whose extradition is sought by Germany for his alleged role in a murder case, was denied bail by a city court, which noted that the offence committed by him is grave in nature and is extraditable.
Allowing the plea of Naveen Kumar Matta, counsel for the ministry of external affairs (MEA), who argued that the bail plea of accused, Adam Piotr Mancie, can only be entertained only after the conclusion of extradition proceedings, additional chief metropolitan magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal dismissed his bail plea and said, “The offence is grave in nature and is extraditable... The fugitive criminal is not entitled to any leniency of bail.”
The lawyer of 43-year-old Mancie, however, claimed that the deceased Friedhelm Sodenkamp was himself a person of a “doubtful character” and it was “plausible” that some other person might have killed him.
The MEA is pursuing the extradition inquiry at the request of Germany in the case.
Mancie, is accused of gunning down Sodenkamp in 2008, at Berlin Mitte city centre. His offence was covered under Section 211 (murder) of the German Criminal Code.
Mancie, who was given 25,000 euros by a co-accused for committing the offence, killed the victim when he was taking his dog out for a walk, the arrest warrant of a German court said. He is in judicial custody in India following his detention at Goa.
The MEA, in its extradition plea, had annexed the arrest warrant issued on December 10, 2008, by a local court judge of Tiergarten in Berlin.
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