Q: Difference between Asylum and Extradition ?
Ans:
1. Asylum ends when extradition initiates. Asylum is providing protection and a safe place by host country to all those who have been exposed to Risk and Persecution and therefore have left their home counties.
2. Extradition is the process of sending back a fugitive by one country to another, the main purpose is to criminally prosecute the fugitive .
Columbia V. Peru, 1950
Diplomatic Asylum infringe the territorial sovereignty of any nation and thus can not be legally recognized.
If any state grants diplomatic Asylum, it will have to prove that the state has the right to grant diplomatic asylum and it should be respected by the territorial state.
The court also mentioned that there is not any international treaty for diplomatic asylum.
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Fugitive: भगोड़ा
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