India, Sept. 7 -- As India is seeking the extradition of Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, and Sanjay Bhandari from the UK, a team of Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) recently visited Delhi's Tihar Jail to assess the prison conditions. The UK officials had also sought a written guarantee from India that no prisoner in Tihar would be ill-treated.
The team included four people - two CPS experts and two British High Commission officials, sources said. This visit, which took place in July, was a direct response to concerns raised by British courts about the conditions in Indian prisons. The UK officials had also sought a written guarantee from India that no prisoner in Tihar would be ill-treated.
Sources said the four-member team assessed th...