Mehul Choksi has challenged his detention in Dominica.
New Delhi:
Fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi was seen within the custody of the police in Dominica in a photograph obtained by native media on Saturday shortly after a court docket within the Caribbean island nation extended till Wednesday its order restraining his deportation.
The court docket additionally directed that the 62-year-old businessman be taken to a hospital for medical consideration and a COVID-19 take a look at.
On Wednesday, it’ll hear a habeas corpus plea – which determines whether or not a detention is lawful – filed by Choksi, who has been charged with coming into the nation illegally, throwing up one other hurdle to New Delhi’s makes an attempt to have him introduced house and tried in India’s largest bank fraud case.
Choksi, who was born in India, was captured in Dominica earlier this week after going lacking from the Caribbean nation of Antigua on Sunday, triggering a world manhunt.
He had been residing in Antigua, the place he had secured a passport, after fleeing India earlier than the fraud got here to gentle. He is without doubt one of the principal defendants within the case.
After Choksi was detained, Antigua refused to take him again and Prime Minister Gaston Browne instructed information company ANI that the nation was in talks with the Dominican in addition to Indian governments for his repatriation to India.
Investigators in India have filed fraud expenses towards Choksi, his nephew, Nirav Modi, and others in reference to their suspected involvement in fraudulent transactions that led to losses of about Rs 14,000 crore for the Punjab Nationwide Financial institution (PNB).
PNB alleged in 2018 that a couple of rogue workers had issued faux financial institution ensures over a number of years to assist jewelry teams managed by Modi and Choksi to boost funds in overseas credit score.
Each Modi and Choksi have denied any wrongdoing. Modi was arrested in London in 2019 and is preventing extradition to India. The Indian authorities has been pushing for Choksi’s extradition from Antigua and Barbuda.
(With inputs from businesses)