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ARTICLE 2

NATURE OF OFFENCES

(1)

for

Surrender of fugitive offenders shall be granted

an offence coming within any of the following

descriptions of offences in so far as it is according to

the laws of both Parties punishable by imprisonment for

not less than one year or by a more severe penalty:

(i) murder;

(ii)

manslaughter

or culpable homicide not

amounting to murder;

(iii) aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring

suicide;

(iv) wounding, inflicting grievous bodily harm,

assault occasioning actual bodily harm;

(v)

rape;

(vi) indecent assault or use of criminal force

(vii)

with intent to outrage modesty;

an offence punishable under the laws relating

to women and girls;

(viii) gross indecency with a child;

(ix)

(x)

abduction and kidnapping;

false imprisonment;

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