The Government of India continues to make efforts to get extradited fugitive criminals from foreign countries and for this purpose India has signed extradition treaties and extradition arrangements with several countries.

The law enforcement agencies send the extradition proposals to the Ministry of Home Affairs, which after due examination forward them to the Ministry of External Affairs for taking up the matter with the concerned foreign countries as it is the nodal ministry for extradition.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made extradition request for extraditing (1) David Coleman Headley @ Daood Gilani (2) Tahawwur Hussain Rana from USA; Willy Naruenartwanich @ Willy Narue from Thailand; Abdulla Haji @ Haji Abdulla @ Amitab Bachan Haji from Saudi Arabia; and (1) Moideen @ Moideenabba Ummar Byari (2) Abdul Salam @ Podi Salem from UAE.

As a result of efforts made by the Government of India, 59 fugitive criminals have been brought back to India since 2002, to face trial in India. In addition, Interpol wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has got published 664 red notices on the basis of requests from CBI branches as well as from other law enforcement agencies. This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary in a written reply to a question by T. Rathinavel in the Rajya Sabha.