"The Justice Department spoke to this. He's been tried, convicted, and will serve in the United States," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said Friday when asked about a report that India wanted to keep up the effort to extradite Headley.
Acting US Attorney Gary S. Shapiro, told reporters in Chicago Thursday that in order to extradite Headley to India, Headley would have to violate his guilty plea by not co-operating with the US government or any foreign government in future investigations and by not being truthful.
"Under the plea agreement, he cannot be extradited to India for the crimes he has been convicted of here. If the plea agreement was voided, then our agreement as to extradition is voided as well," he said.
Under the plea deal, US prosecutors "had agreed not to seek the death penalty against him and to not extradite him to Pakistan, India or Denmark for the offences to which he pleaded guilty."
