A habeas corpus has been filed in Supreme Court for Nikhil Gupta, the person accused of conspiring with a authorities official to assassinate United States-based Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

The plea, filed by his household, seeks Indian authorities’s intervention in extradition proceedings initiated by the US. Some reviews said that the case is predicted to be heard on Friday.

The petition claims Gupta is being illegally detained in Prague, and that, as a law-abiding citizen, fears his life is at risk.

A report in NDTV quoted the petition: “… the circumstances (of the arrest in Prague) had been marked by irregularities, with no formal arrest warrant offered, and the apprehension executed by self-claimed US brokers reasonably than native Czech authorities”.

It also claims “grave violations of fundamental rights”, together with “pressured consumption of beef and pork” that he found offensive as he is a “devout Hindu and vegetarian”.

Later within the day, the apex court docket heard the matter and acknowledged this to be an “extraordinarily delicate matter” for the Ministry of External Affairs.

NDTV report stated that Justice Sanjiv Khanna first directed the petitioner to “go before the court which is outside India”, making the purpose that the Supreme Court of India had no jurisdiction over arrests overseas.

Gupta, also referred to as ‘Nick’, was arrested by Czech authorities in June and is awaiting extradition.

The fees had been unveiled in a Superseding Indictment unsealed in November within the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Though the prosecutors didn’t identify the “goal”, US officials have identified him as Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

The US indictment, which identifies Pannu as “The Victim”, additionally identifies an Indian authorities worker as CC-1, who allegedly collaborated with others, together with Gupta, to direct a plot to assassinate “a US citizen of Indian origin” residing in New York City. It alleges that Gupta, residing in India, is associated with CC-1 and has been involved in international narcotics and weapons trafficking.

Czech authorities arrested and detained Gupta on June 30, based on the bilateral extradition treaty between the United States and the Czech Republic. Gupta faces charges of murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, each carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.