TORONTO: am ready. I am prepared,” a man wanted for a double murder in Canada is quoted as telling police who went to India to return him for trail.
Kuldip Singh Samra was quiet and pale sitting in dirty clothes in a stifling, hot, dusty corridor with 100 other inmates in a New Delhi prison, Sergeant Rajinder Singh Sidhu told court Nov, 12.
The Metro Toronto police officer and his partner took custody of Samra on April 24,1992, 10 years and one month after Toronto lawyer Oscar Fonseca, 51, and Bhupinder Panun, 31, were shot dead in an Osgood Hall courtroom, A third man, Amarjit Tatla, 46, was shot in the spine and is paralyzed from the chest down.
Sidhu said when he got to the Indian prison; Samra told him he was ready to come back. The fugitive had not appealed his extradition order.
He said Samra told him of being underfed and about the smugglers who bribed the guards and had their relatives bring in food and clothes.
He also told the officer he had been beaten by five guards during a riot one of many in the prison that was blamed on him, an Ontario Court general division, and jury heard.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 19, 1993
