Another fugitive nabbed, to be extradited to Australia
Thursday, 12/12/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20131212/punjab.htm#2
Patiala : Claiming that he had escaped from Australia on a fake passport after a racial attack, 24-year-old Puneet Rawal will be presented in court tomorrow. The court will speed up the process of his extradition to Australia, where he faces trial in a hit and run case.
Rawal was arrested by the Patiala police a fortnight ago. Having travelled to India on fake documents, he worked on a fake name at various call centres before he was arrested.
A US fugitive, Amandeep Singh Dhami, too, had travelled to India on fake papers and resided in Jalandhar for more than four years on a fictitious name.
Rawal fled Australia in June 2009. He was facing trial for killing Queensland resident Dean Hofstee (19) and leaving his friend Clancy Coker (20) seriously injured while speeding away in a car under the influence of liquor on October 1, 2008.
“Thereafter, my passport was confiscated.There was an attack on me house. Terrified, I fled the country in 2009,” Rawal told The Tribune.
He said he kept shifting residence in Delhi and Gurgaon to evade arrest. even as a police team readied to shift him to Delhi where the CBI will hand him over to the Interpol.
“We will hand him over to the CBI after he is produced in a Rajpura court for transit remand,” said Patiala Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Hardyal Singh Mann.
Hit-and-run case
Puneet RawalOctober 1,2008: Puneet Rawal (in pic), an accountancy student, driving his car at over 150 km/per hour hits two, leaving one of them dead.
January 2009: He pleads guilty in court
June 11 2009: He uses his friend Sukhcharanjit Singh's passport to escape to India. Sukhcharanjit gets 18-month jail for helping him escape
August 2012: Australian police announce $ one lakh for anyone giving information on the fugitive
November 29, 2013: Puneet is arrested in Panipat
