Paramjeet Singh, a hardline Sikh activist, wanted by India for the 2009 killing of Rulda Singh, the head of the Hindu nationalist movement Rashtriya Sikh Sangat, and two bomb attacks in 2010 in northwest India, has been detained in Portugal.
Singh’s Portugese lawyer Manuel Luis Ferreira said an appeal court in southern Portugal decided to continue the detention of Singh at the Beja prision while waiting for a formal extradition request from the Indian authorities.
An Interpol red corner notice was issued in Singh’s name, leading to his arrest at a hotel in southern Portugal’s Algarve region, where he was staying with his wife and four young children.
Ferreira added that Singh had previously lived in Britain, where he obtained political asylum in 2004, and that his detention at the Beja prison will last at least until January, 4, 2016.
(With agency inputs)
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