(30 Nov 2022)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Delhi, India - 30-Nov-2022
1. Mid of suspect Rajwinder Singh (blue turban) being taken to a courtroom
2. Wide of court
3. Mid of an Australian official talking to lawyers
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajay Digpaul, Counsel representing Indian government:
“Today he has been produced before the court, and despite the fact that he was served with the documents on the last date of hearing , he made a request for another set. We are providing him one. Next date of hearing his 17th of December for recording of the evidence of the Union of India.”
5. Signboard reading (English) “Patiala House Court”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajay Digpaul, Counsel representing Indian government:
“This proceeding is not as regard to the trial or whether he has committed this offence or not. This proceeding, this enquiry is as regard to the extradition. Whether this person has to be extradited, one , whether this is an offence which is extraditable nature, whether it's an offence which is not of political nature. That’s all."
7. Tracking of suspect leaving courtroom
8. Wide of exterior court
9. Mid of security at entrance
STORYLINE:

A suspect in the murder of a woman on an Australian beach four years ago appeared in a New Delhi court on Wednesday.

Indian national Rajwinder Singh, 38, flew from Sydney to his homeland the day after 24-year-old Australian Toyah Cordingley's body was found on the Queensland state coast in late October 2018.

Singh was arrested Friday on New Delhi’s outskirts following Australia's extradition request to India.

New Delhi police said in a statement the arrest was made based on intelligence shared by the France-based international policing organization Interpol as well as Australian police.

Australia had applied for Singh's extradition for murder in March last year, but he could not be found.

The Queensland government on November 3 offered a 1 million Australian dollar ($677,000) reward, the largest reward in the state's history for information about Singh.

The reward was unique in that it did not seek a clue that solves a crime and leads to a successful prosecution.

Instead, the money is offered for information that leads only to a suspect's location and arrest.

The next date of hearing is on December 17.

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