Mehul Choksi Denied Bail By Dominica Court: "He’s A Flight Risk"
Mehul Choksi Denied Bail By Dominica Court: "He’s A Flight Risk"
Mehul Choksi was caught when he was allegedly trying to escape to Cuba from Antigua, where he had been living since 2018 after leaving India.
Mehul Choksi, the fugitive jeweller wanted in India for allegedly swindling ₹ 13,500 crore from Punjab National Bank, has been denied bail by the high court in Dominica on the grounds that he is a "flight risk", news agency ANI reported on Saturday citing local media.
Judge Wynante Adrien-Roberts of Dominica High Court also highlighted that Choksi did not have any ties with Dominica and the court could not impose any conditions which will stop him from leaving the country, the Antigua Newsroom reported.
Choksi had approached the high court after the magistrate had rejected his bail petition.
Currently, he has got interim relief from immediate repatriation to India by the Dominican high court, according to ANI.
The 62-year-old fugitive will appear before Magistrate court again on Monday on a charge of illegal entry into Dominica, the Antigua Newsroom said.
The court verdict comes a few days after Dominica Prime Minister termed Choksi as an "Indian citizen". "The matter with this Indian citizen is before the courts, the courts will decide what happens to this gentleman and we allow the court process to go through," Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit was quoted as saying in the local media.
Mehul Choksi was caught when he was allegedly trying to escape to Cuba from Antigua, where he had been living since 2018 after leaving India. He reportedly left Antigua and took a boat to neighbouring Dominica. With an Interpol lookout circular against him, he was caught by the police from a beach in Dominica.
Choksi’s lawyers alleged that he was kidnapped in Antigua by policemen looking like Antiguan and Indian and brought to Dominica on a boat.
The diamond jeweler, along with his nephew Nirav Modi, is wanted by Indian investigating agencies for allegedly swindling ₹ 13,500 crore as loans from state-run Punjab National Bank using fake documents. Nirav Modi, jailed in London, is contesting his extradition to India.
Comments on this Article | |
Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai | Sat, June-12-2021, 7:37 |
Mehul Choksi is a Robber - Let him Die ... Agree[2]
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