Extradition Act, 1965

Discharge of persons not taken out of State.

53.—(1) If the person in respect of whom an order has been made under section 47 is not delivered up under the order within one month after it was made the High Court, upon application by or on behalf of that person, may, unless reasonable cause is shown for the delay, order him to be discharged.

(2) If, in the case of a person in respect of whom an order has been made under section 47, it appears to a justice of the District Court for the district in which the order was made, that for any reason the police force of the place in which the warrant for arrest was issued no longer require the delivery of that person into their custody he shall order him to be discharged.