During the British Prime Minister Theresa May’s maiden visit to India after taking the charge, India as well as the United Kingdom has jointly vowed to fight against terrorism and criticized Pakistan for failing to punish the accused of Mumbai 2008 terrorist attack, according to the reports.

Similarly, India as well as the United Kingdom exchanged a list of suspects they want to get extradited from each others’ countries. According to the reports PM Narendra Modi is pitching to bring back Vijay Mallya, Lalit Modi and Christian Michel in India. According to the media reports India have given a list of 57 names, while UK has submitted the list of 17 names they want extradited from India.

“The fight against terrorism should not only seek to disrupt and bring to justice terrorists, terror organizations and networks, but should also identify, hold accountable and take strong measures against all those who encourage, support and finance terrorism, provide sanctuary to terrorists and terror groups, and falsely extol their virtues.

There should be no glorification of terrorists or efforts to make a distinction between good and bad terrorists. They agreed that South Asia should be stable, prosperous and free from terror and called on all countries to work towards that goal,” said the joint statement. Reports also said that Pakistan’s failure to punish the accused in the Mumbai 26/11 terror attack was also been called.

Discussion on Vijay Mallya and the Lalit Modi also took place in the meeting. Mallya and Modi both are in England currently and are wanted by the ED in money laundering cases.

The statement said, “The two leaders expresses their strong commitments to facilitate outstanding extradition request from both sides. In this context, they directed that officials dealing with extradition matters from both sides should meet at the earliest to develop better understanding of each countries' legal processes and requirements; share best practices, and identify the causes of delays and expedite pending requests.”