Indian Govt's Private Jet Reaches Dominica, Will Fugitive Mehul Choksi Be Repatriated To India?

<p><strong>Dominica:&nbsp;</strong>A private jet of the Indian government has landed in Dominica on Sunday morning and speculations are rife that the fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi will be soon brought back to India.</p> <p>Choksi, who had recently fled from Antigua and Barbuda, was captured in neighbouring Dominica after an Interpol Yellow Notice was issued against him.&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://ift.tt/2SGKdvb style="color: #e03e2d;"><strong>Also Read|First Images Of Fugitive Mehul Choksi From Dominica Prison; Eyes Red, Bruises On Arm</strong></span></a></p> <p>A High Court of Dominica has 'restrained' the extradition of fugitive businessman until further or other hearing of this application is continued until the further hearing of this matter.</p> <p>The next hearing of the case is scheduled for June 2.</p> <p>The court's decision came on Friday while it was hearing a habeas corpus plea filed by Choksi's lawyers.</p> <p>On Saturday,a local media outlet released two photos of fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi while in the custody of the police in Dominica. The photos, released by Chowksi&rsquo;s lawyer to media, show him behind bars, his eye swollen and arm severely bruised.</p> <p id="1" class="story_para_1">The images have surfaced two days after the fugitive diamantaire&rsquo;s&nbsp;lawyer claimed&nbsp;that he was &ldquo;forcefully picked up by various people" from Antigua&rsquo;s Jolly Harbour and taken to Dominica, where he may have been &ldquo;tortured". His lawyer Vijay Aggarwal had said the 62-year-old businessman has wounds on his body.</p> <p>Choksi, who is wanted in India by the CBI and the ED for the Rs 13,500 crore PNB loan fraud case, went missing from Antigua and Barbuda on Sunday, sparking a massive manhunt. He was captured in Dominica on Wednesday.</p> <p>After Choksi was detained, Antigua refused to take him back and Prime Minister Gaston Browne told news agency ANI that the country was in talks with the Dominican as well as Indian governments for his repatriation to India.</p> <p>Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi allegedly siphoned off the gigantic public money from the state-run bank using fraudulent letters of undertaking.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><iframe class="vidfyVideo" style="border: 0px;" src="https://ift.tt/3fxQJxl" width="631" height="381" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>

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