His arrest came three weeks after he was targeted with a 1 million Australian dollar ($677,000) reward
A court in New Delhi recently approved the extradition request for the prime suspect in the killing of a woman on an Australian beach four years ago, reported AP. Rajwinder Singh was arrested in November 2022 on the outskirts of Delhi. His arrest came three weeks after he was targeted with a 1 million Australian dollar ($677,000) reward.
Australia had applied to India for Singh’s extradition in March 2021, but he could not be found.
Singh, 38, flew from Sydney to India the day after 24-year-old Australian Toyah Cordingley’s body was found on the Queensland state coast on October 22, 2018.
The court’s order approving Singh’s extradition to Australia will have to be passed by the Indian government. Singh had waived his right to challenge the extradition.
Indian police arrested Singh on the same day they received information about his whereabouts, Australian Federal Police said in November
In November, Australia’s attorney general said Singh’s extradition was a “high priority” for his government and that it would work with Indian authorities to ensure Singh returned to Australia to face justice.
The Queensland government offered the largest reward in the state’s history for information about Singh. The reward was unique in that it did not seek a clue that solves a crime and leads to a successful prosecution. Instead, the money is offered for information that leads only to a suspect’s location and arrest.
Indian police arrested Singh on the same day they received information about his whereabouts, Australian Federal Police said in November.
Singh was employed as a nurse at Innisfail, a town south of the major city of Cairns, when Cordingley was killed on Wangetti Beach. She had gone to the beach to walk her dog.
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