London-based music composer Nadeem Akhtar Saifee will petition the Government of India for the recall of red corner notice and non-bailable warrant issued against him in September 1997 in connection with audio King Gulshan Kumar murder case to faciliate his return to the country from London, his lawyer said today.

Nadeem’s counsel, Majeed Memon, who just returned from London after a meeting with him, told PTI here that Nadeem had asked him to move the Union Home and External Affairs Ministries urging to lift the curbs imposed on him and returning travel documents to facilitate his return to India.

Nadeem won court battles in Britain to resist Indian government’s efforts to seek his extradition in connection with Gulshan Kumar murder.

Memon said the trial court in London had on April 30 last year observed that the motive for Gulshan Kumar’s murder had not been accepted by it and hence the prosecution had failed to establish the charge of conspiracy and contract killing.

Nadeem’s lawyer said even the London high court had discharged Nadeem from the extradition case filed by Indian government against him. The court had held that accusation of murder against Nadeem was not made in good faith and that it would not be fair and just to return him to India because of apparent misbehaviour by police in pursuing the case.

This verdict was challenged in the House of Lords by the Government and even the apex court rejected the appeal. Nadeem has been exonerated by multiple judicial verdicts and it was high time for him to seek a safe passage to India, Memon said.

Gulshan Kumar was killed on August 12, 1997. At that time Nadeem was in London. Police alleged he had planned the murder and since then Nadeem has not returned.