CBI And MEA Took Big Steps Aganist Fugitive Mehul Choksi
CBI and MEA took big steps Aganist Fugitive Mehul Choksi. Fugitive Mehul Choksi will be tightened, the CBI and the Ministry of External Affairs took these big steps.
The government has stepped up efforts to extradite fugitive diamond merchant Mehul Choksi. The government has filed an indictment application in a court in Dominica.
One application has been filed by the CBI while the other has been filed by the Ministry of External Affairs. The CBI will focus on the PNB case to prove Mehul Choksi’s fugitive status while the Ministry of External Affairs will focus on his Indian citizenship status.
News agency quoted sources as saying that if these applications are accepted, veteran lawyer Harish Salve will represent both the CBI and the Ministry of External Affairs.
At the same time, according to the news agency, the Dominica High Court has refused to grant bail to fugitive diamond merchant Mehul Choksi in the case of illegal infiltration.
The High Court in its judgment has said that Choksi is in danger of running away. Choksi went missing from Antigua and Barbuda on May 23 and was reportedly captured in Dominica on May 26.
Choksi had been living as a citizen in Antigua and Barbuda since 2018. Choksi has moved to the High Court after the magistrate’s court in Dominica rejected his bail plea.
Interpol Red Notice issued against Choksi (62). He disappeared from Antigua and Barbuda under mysterious circumstances on 23 May.
After escaping from India, he was living here as a citizen since 2018. He was detained with his alleged girlfriend for illegally entering the neighboring island country of Dominica.
Choksi’s lawyers alleged that Antigua and Indian-looking policemen abducted her from Jolie Harbor in Antigua and ferried her to Dominica.
The CBI and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) have filed an affidavit in the Dominica High Court and appealed to be made parties to the habeas corpus petition.
The central probe agency CBI will focus on Choksi’s criminal accountability, the status of the fugitive case, pending warrants against him, red notices, and filing of charge sheets.
At the same time, the Ministry of External Affairs will give arguments regarding Choksi’s Indian citizenship.
According to news agency, Choksi was produced before the Rosseau Magistrates’ Court to answer the allegations of illegal entry on the orders of Judge Bernie Stephenson of the Dominica High Court hearing the habeas corpus case.
However, during this appearance, Choksi did not confess his crime. Thereafter the court refused to grant him bail.
