New Delhi, March 17
The Delhi High Court today permitted summoning of NRI Maninderpal Singh Kohli’s wife from London by a city magistrate to depose as a witness in the extradition proceedings against him in the British school girl Hannah Foster’s rape and murder case in 2003.
Allowing Kohli’s application for summoning of his wife Shailender Kaur, Justice R. C. Jain said the extradition magistrate could issue fresh summons to her to depose as a witness.
Her deposition had remained incomplete earlier and Kohli’s counsel Charanjit Singh Bakshi had moved the High Court, seeking her deposition afresh.
His wife, who earlier had given a statement before London Police against Kohli, had given the statement in his favour before the extradition magistrate during her unfinished deposition.
The High Court, however, rejected Kohli’s plea for summoning of eight other witnesses from England cited by him.
