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New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has refused to allow a Chinese national and Vivo executive facing prosecution in a money laundering case to travel home to visit his critically ill father, holding that humanitarian considerations alone could not outweigh the need to secure his presence during trial, particularly in the absence of an extradition treaty or Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between India and China. A single-judge bench of Justice Madhu Jain dismissed the applicati…

New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court has issued notice on a plea filed by a Chinese national seeking permission to travel home for a brief period to visit his ailing mother, observing that the matter deserved consideration on “purely humanitarian grounds”. A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma directed the issuance of notice and impleaded the Ministry of External Affairs as an additional respondent in the matter in view of the absence of an extradition treaty between…