After this process, the court would be giving the date for beginning of agruments on Quattrocchi's extradition plea made by CBI.
NEW DELHI: An Argentinian court has asked the CBI to furnish any fresh evidence, if any, by April 26 so that arguments on its request to extradite Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, an accused in the Bofors case, from that country could begin.
In a communication received at the CBI headquarters here from Buenos Aires, the court in Al Dorado has issued a notice to the CBI's lawyer Miguel Almeyra and Lilian Delgado appointed by the Argentinian government to "examine all the documents submitted by Quattrocchi and submit its reply and any further evidence within next five working days."
The order of April 18 by the court of Hachiro Doi of the First Court of El Dorado in the province of Misiones, about 1,500 km from the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires, was given to the counsels yesterday and the reply would be submitted by April 26.
The CBI has begun hectic consultations with its legal experts here as well as with those appointed in Argentina.
After this process, the court would be giving the date for beginning of agruments on Quattrocchi's extradition plea made by CBI.
Quattrocchi is being represented by Alejandro Freeland and Luis Taimini.
The hearing for extradition of Quattrocchi to India had begun in the Argentinian court on March 23 during which the the Italian businessman had opposed the move saying it was a political case.
Quattrochi is at present out on bail but has been asked by Argentine authorities to confine himself to Buenos Aires ever since he was released from detention in Misiones province.
The CBI had submitted a 250-page extradition request to the Argentinian government after his arrested in Misiones province on February six while he was on his way to Brazil.
The CBI had sent a two-member team -- Director of Prosecution S K Sharma and Superintendent of Police Keshav Mishra -- who submitted the extradition papers to the Argentinian government on March one.
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