Home Minister Shivraj Patil and visiting British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw signed two agreements in New Delhi on Friday
Under the Agreement on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, convicted prisoner or people entitled to act on their behalf may make a request for transfer in view of age or physical or mental condition to serve the sentence in their own country. The request for transfer will have to be agreed upon by the transferring state and the receiving state.
It will be effected if the judgment awarding the sentence is final in India and no appeal against the judgment is pending in any court, a home ministry official said.
The two countries also renewed an accord on the return of illegal Indian immigrants from the UK.
The Memorandum of Understanding on Asylum Returns was signed in February last year by then deputy prime minister Lal Kishenchand Advani and then British home secretary David Blunkett.
The agreement lays down that India will accept from Britain illegal immigrants after proper verification. The Union cabinet had on Thursday approved the renewal of the MoU.