​India has signed an agreement for the exchange of prisoners with which country?

Correct option is A

​The correct answer is (a) Somalia

Explanation:

India signed an agreement for the exchange of prisoners with Somalia in August 2017. This agreement facilitates the transfer of sentenced persons between the two countries, allowing prisoners to serve their remaining sentences in their home country.

Information Booster:

• Purpose of Prisoner Transfer Agreements: These agreements aim to aid the social rehabilitation of prisoners by allowing them to serve their sentences closer to their families and in familiar cultural settings.
• The Government of India has signed Agreements with 31 countries namely Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Egypt, Estonia, France, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, United Kingdom and Vietnam.
• In addition to the this, India has signed two multilateral conventions on transfer of sentenced persons, namely Inter-American Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad and Council of Europe Convention on Transfer of Sentenced Persons, by virtue of which sentenced persons of member States and other countries which have signed/ acceded to these conventions can seek transfer to their native countries to serve the remainder of their sentence in their home country.
• A year after the independence of Somalia in 1960, the Commissioner of India to Mauritius was accredited as Ambassador of India to Somalia and presented Credentials in 1961. Later, a resident Mission was opened in Mogadishu. After the outbreak of civil war in 1991, the Indian Embassy in Mogadishu was closed.