It has been a major development in the history of Indian law enforcement that economic offender Monika Kapoor decided to be extradited to the U.S. and was extradited recently after being on the run for more than 25 years. Kapoor was handcuffed by the U.S. and handed over to a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team in New York on Tuesday evening. She is supposed to land in India on Wednesday night on an American Airlines flight, after which she will be taken before the court that is concerned with her trial.
The CBI termed the extradition a milestone in its efforts to ensure wrongdoers get what is due to them, whether across international borders. This extradition will be remembered as a very significant step in terms of the quest for justice, and once again reinstates the search efforts on the part of CBI to track down the fugitives to make them answer to Indian law.
Kapoor, who was the owner of Monika Overseas, had colluded with her brothers(Rajan Khanna and Rajiv Khanna) to complete and fabricate documents like shipping bills, invoices, and bank certificates of non-existent jewelry dealings. Through this document, the Indian government was tricked into awarding the duty-free importation licenses. The inquiry found out that Kapoor had later on sold these licenses at higher prices to a company called Deep Exports in Ahmedabad, which imported gold through these licenses at a loss of 1.44 crore to the Indian exchequer (approximately 679,000 dollars).
In March 2004, CBI filed a charge sheet naming Kapoor, along with her brothers, of criminal conspiracy, cheating, and forgery. Meanwhile, her brothers were punished in 2017, and Kapoor escaped India in 1999, and after that, she was proclaimed an offender in 2006. In 2012, India was granted an extradition request by a U.S. district court, 2 years after its formal request for her extradition.
Kapoor resisted years before her extradition, on the grounds that she would most likely be tortured in India, but the Secretary of State denied her request, and instead signed her surrender warrant under that bilateral treaty and the U.S. law.
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