India, March 17 -- The Delhi high court on Tuesday reserved verdict in a plea by Christian Michel James, the alleged middleman in the Agusta Westland VVIP chopper case, seeking release from prison on the ground that he has already served the maximum sentence for the offences for which he was extradited, even as the CBI, ED and Centre opposed the same.

The petition in which Michel also challenged Article 17 of the India-UAE extradition treaty ("treaty") was opposed by agency's lawyer additional solicitor general (ASG) DP Singh and Centre's lawyer Satya Ranjan Swain before a bench of justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja. The said article, allows India to prosecute people for offences for which extradition is sought and for "connected ...