India to seek LTTE leader's extradition

India has decided to place an extradition request for LTTE leader Kumaran Padmanadan, alias KP, nabbed by Sri Lanka earlier this month.

A CBI team will leave for Colombo in September to grill KP on the " larger conspiracy" behind the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination.

Sources in the ministry of home affairs ( MHA) said the multi- disciplinary monitoring agency ( MDMA) under the CBI has been given a one- year extension with directions to focus on KP's interrogation and ensure his extradition to India.

The request for MDMA's extension was pending with the MHA after its term ended on May 31.

" MDMA has been given an extension last week after Sri Lanka announced KP's arrest on August 7," a top MHA official said.