CBI not to give up paedophile hunt
BY FRANKEY FERNANDES VASCO, OCT 14 Not satisfied with the fact that certain countries are harbouring suspected paedophiles, wanted in India, the Central Bureau Investigation (CBI) has decided to adopt a new approach to bring paedophiles to justice. Under the proposed system, the CBI will work to get the accused indicted and tried in the domiciliary country. Efforts to extradite late Freddy Peats accomplices E C Macbride (New Zealand), Nils Oscar Johnson (Sweden), Zell Jurgen Andress (Germany), Raymond A Varley (UK) and Dominique Sebire (France) did not yield the desired results, even with the help of Interpol, CBI Director Vijay Shanker told Herald. Speaking on the sidelines of a recent South Asia Regional Conference on Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking in New Delhi, Shanker said that the CBI was forced to look for options in order to see that Peats accomplices face trial in India. Freddy Peats 81 years old when he died, in April 2005 was arrested on April 3, 1991, for his involvement in the paedophile case that rocked Goa and gave it the reputation of being a hub for sex tourism. Convicted on March 21, 1996, Peats was sentenced to life imprisonment. Foreign countries are making it increasingly difficult to extradite the accused, said Shanker, while expressing displeasure over the manner in which the countries were being unsupportive. The CBI will now provide these countries with relevant case papers so that the accused can be tried in the country where they are at the moment. Incidentally, Werner Wulf Ingo, an Australian, was the only one extradited to India. He was later sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment. http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=2810&cid=2 Sanny de Quepem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
