The arrest of an Indian who killed his Kuwaiti sponsor 10 years ago
India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) announced that a fugitive Indian man who had been sentenced to death in absentia by a Kuwaiti court of first instance in 2012 had recently been arrested after it had convicted him at the time for the murder of his Kuwaiti sponsor.
According to a spokesman for the office, the Indian convict named Santosh Kumar Rana had rushed to escape from Kuwait after killing his sponsor and his wife.
The statement indicated that the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs had registered with its Indian counterpart in late 2016 a memorandum against that fugitive convict, which demanded his extradition to Kuwait within the framework of the criminal exchange agreement concluded between the two countries.
It is scheduled to coordinate between the relevant authorities in the two countries regarding the extradition of the fugitive convict to complete his trial, on the basis that the criminal exchange agreement concluded between them stipulates this in the event that the penalty for the relevant crime is imprisonment for more than one year.
On February 29, 2012, a Kuwaiti criminal court of first instance had sentenced the accused to death in absentia.
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