Namibia court nod to extradite French national

Senior police officials told The Indian Express that magistrate Cosmos Endjala of Windhoek Regional Court Thursday ordered the extradition. “Had this offence been committed in Namibia, there would have been sufficient grounds for holding trial as there is prima facie proof in respect of contravening the provision of the Combating of Rape Act which is almost equivalent to Section 8 of the Protection of Sexual Offences Act of India,” the police official said quoting the magistrate’s order.

The Namibia court noted that all extradition documents are in order and evidence was sufficient to justify Furic’s trial.

In June, Orissa home department sent the extradition request to the NCB-Interpol office in New Delhi which then forwarded it to the Namibia government. The Interpol has already issued a Red Alert notice against him.

On December 2 last year, James Foster Gorman, a former military officer from Topeka in the US, had filed a complaint with the Sea Beach police of Puri that Furic allegedly had sex with a group of minor boys at the Penthakota beach on November 26. He also submitted a video of a conversation Furic had with the boys to the police. Gorman claimed that he was assaulted by Furic when he objected.

When the police went to the hotel where Furic was staying, they found he had left on November 26. Furic had arrived in Puri on November 18.

A lookout notice was issued at all airports and ports and a case registered against under Sections 18 and 12 of the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act, 2012. Sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC, were also invoked against him.