The Indian government has been granted permission by the UK High Court to appeal for the extradition of a UK-based couple to face charges of murder of their adopted son in India in 2017.
The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which represents the Indian authorities in court extradition proceedings, said on Wednesday that permission to appeal had been granted against a lower court's order to extradite Indian-origin British citizen Arti Dhir and her husband Kaval Raijada for the murder of 11-year-old Gopal and his brother-in-law.
The appeal in the extradition request, which had been turned down by Westminster Magistrates' Court in London in July, will be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice on January 28 next year.
"The appeal has been granted and listed for January 28," a CPS spokesperson said.
In July, Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot had accepted there was a "circumstantial prima facie case" against the couple but turned down the extradition request on human rights grounds.
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