If you have a case -- and in this case allegations have been levelled that fixing etc has happened -- you will obviously take it to a logical line. There is a story behind it. It is not as if the extradition request was sent and everything happened in routine. A lot of hard work behind the scenes, behind anyone’s knowledge, has happened after I retired [as Delhi Commissioner of Police in July 2013]. I continued to pursue the case, and fortunately the people who were handling the case in the Crime Branch were willing to take my, shall we say, advise or my bidding, even though I had superannuated. The extradition proposal was made with much difficulty. Delhi Police doesn’t make extradition proposals; it is a very rare thing. I brought along some colleagues from the CBI, and they helped. Making extradition requests have a very and circuitous route. It goes through the Delhi government, then to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, then it goes to the local court, because effectively and essentially it is a transaction between two courts. It is the trial court here and the court in whose jurisdiction he stays or if a certain court has been earmarked as an extradition court. But before the request reaches the other court it has to go through the official channel, because there are so many other things involved – diplomatic relations between countries etc. So, at every stage, this needed to be chased and pushed. It needed quiet a lot of hard work. The biggest roadblock here in India was in the Ministry of External Affairs, where a ‘babu’ sat on the file, though not with any motive or anything. He raised a query and returned the file, and then it was sent back to him again. We had to talk to senior people. We had to pursue it at every stage, till such time that it reached the court in the UK, the Crown Prosecution Service, and the Indian High Commission in London etc. After that, of course, we had nothing to do. But if someone thinks that after my retirement this would have happened in the normal course, it wouldn’t have happened. If that were to happen, this case wouldn’t have been pending with Delhi Police for 13 years before Chawla was charge sheeted during my time as CP, Delhi. Without trying to sound boastful, I am just telling you the factual position.