Political offence. as to the meaning of 'offence of a political character' in the (English) Extradition Act, 1870, see Re Castioni, (1891) 1 QB 149, where it was held that to come within the words of the statute the offence must be incidental to and form part of political disturbances. Cf. Re Meunier, (1894) 2 QB 415.
Offences of a political character are well known in International law and the Law of Extradition. The Indian Extradition Act refers to 'offences of a political character'. For our present purpose it is really unnecessary for us to enter into a discussion as to what are political offences except in a sketchy way. It is sufficient to say that politics are about government and therefore, a political offence is one committed with the object of changing the govern-ment of a State or inducing it to change its policy, Rajender Kumar Jain v. State, AIR 1980 SC 1510: (1980) 3 SCR 982: (1980) 3 SCC 435.