India, Feb. 17 -- A special MCOCA court has directed the Mumbai police to take steps to repatriate alleged gangster Kumar Krishnan Pillai to Hong Kong, holding that India cannot continue to detain or prosecute him in matters beyond the three cases for which extradition was specifically granted.

The cases relate to alleged extortion from builders in Vikhroli, and shooting incidents at developers' office premises.

Recording that extradition had been permitted only in those three cases - all of which have ended in acquittal - the court made it clear that the legal basis for his continued presence in India no longer survives. The court has given the police a month to start the necessary steps to repatriate Pillai.

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