The British government has turned downed the request of Indian government to extradite Mohammad Hanif Umarji Patel aka Tiger Hanif who has been accused of terrorism by Indian government.
The British Home Office has confirmed that the United Kingdom will not extradite Mohammad Hanif Umarji Patel to India on accounts of insufficient evidence against him.
“We can confirm that the extradition request for Hanif Patel was refused by the then home secretary and Hanif Patel was discharged by the court in August 2019,” said a source from UK Home Office.
The development comes as Mr Mohammad Hanif had challenged the previous decision of Theresa May led government which approved his extradition back to India in British courts back in 2012.
Mohammad Hanif Umarji Patel aka Tiger Hanif was accused of being associated with notorious Indian underworld figure Dawood Ibrahim and his organization D-Company. Indian authorities had also accused him of being a part of terrorist incidents in 1993 when a bomb blast struck Varacha Road in Surat, followed by another one at Surat railway station. The blasts were labelled as an apparent revenge attack for the destruction and desecration of Ayodhya mosque by Hindu extremist in 1992.
Furthermore, Indian media and government officials have once again resorted to Islamophobic propaganda, blaming the former Home Secretary Sajid Javid for being responsible for Britain’s refusal to extradite Tiger Hanif.
