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Chapter V: ## MISCELLANEOUS
CHAPTER V
MISCELLANEOUS
22. Liability of fugitive criminals to be arrested and surrendered or returned.
23. Jurisdiction as to offences committed at sea or in air.
24. Discharge of person apprehended if not surrendered or returned within two months.
25. Release of persons arrested on bail.
26. Abetment of extradition offences.
27. Lawfulness of, and retaking on escape from, custody under warrants.
28. Property found on fugitive criminal.
29. Power of Central Government to discharge any fugitive criminal.
30. Simultaneous requisitions.
31. Restrictions on surrender.
32. Sections 29 and 31 to apply without any modification thereof.
33. Act not to affect the Foreigners Act, 1946.
34. Extra territorial jurisdiction.
- 34A. Prosecution on refusal to extradition.
- 34B. Provisional arrest.
- 34C. Provision of life imprisonment for death penalty.
35. Notified orders and notifications to be laid before Parliament.
36. Power to make rules.
37. Repeals and savings.
- THE SCHEDULE.
THE EXTRADITION ACT, 1962
ACT NO. 34 OF 1962
[15 th September , 1962.]
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the extradition of fugitive criminals
1[and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.]
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:―
Source: India Code