New Delhi: CBI has clarified that there has been no lukewarm response in getting Ottavio Quattrocchi extradited from Argentina.
Supreme Court has issued notice to CBI and asked it to file an affidavit telling the Court what steps are being taken to extradite Quattrocchi.
The Supreme Court was hearing an application seeking details of the steps that are being taken to extradite Quattrochi from Argentina.
A bench headed by Justice C K Thakker issued notices to the Centre and CBI and sought their replies within a week.
Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subrahmaniam, while accepting the notices, said that a special team of the CBI is being sent to Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, for expediting the extradition process.
The court issued the direction after a lawyer, Ashok Aggarwal who had filed a PIL on the issue, made a mention of Quattrocchi's detention at Iguazu international airport in Buenos Aires on February six on the basis of a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol at the behest of the CBI.
He alleged that though the CBI had the knowledge of his detention as earlier as on February seven, it kept the matter under wraps for "obvious" reasons.
The Bench then remarked it was a serious matter.
The Supreme Court has also asked the CBI to file a status report on Quattrochi.
Interestingly, the Quattrochi matter had come up for hearing in the court on February 12.
It was at this time that the CBI disclosed to the court that the Italian arms dealer was detained by Argentinian authorities on February 7.
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