‘Brutal marks on body establish abduction claims’: Mehul Choksi’s lawyer

The brutal marks on Mehul Choksi’s body clearly establish our abduction claims, the fugitive businessman’s lawyer Vijay Aggarwal mentioned Sunday. Wanted within the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank fraud case, Choksi was arrested in Dominica on Wednesday for allegedly coming into the nation “illegally” from Antigua and Barbuda, the place he has been residing since January 2018. 

“All these theories of Mehul Choksi fleeing from Antigua voluntarily are opposed to common sense. Firstly, he has a stay in his favour in Antigua. Secondly, I have been informed that his passport is in Antigua only, so nobody will try to escape without having passport in his pocket. Brutal marks on body and this passport factor now establishes abduction claims,” Aggarwal mentioned.

Meanwhile, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne mentioned Choksi might have left his sanctuary in Antigua and brought a ship journey to neighbouring Dominica to have dinner or a “good time” together with his girlfriend. He mentioned that Government of Dominica and legislation enforcement companies, except the court docket guidelines in any other case, can deport him to India as a result of he’s an Indian citizen.

“The data that we’re getting is that Mehul Choksi might have taken his girlfriend to Dominica most likely to have dinner or have time and so on and acquired caught.

That would have been a monumental error as a result of in Antigua he’s a citizen, we couldn’t deport him…,” he mentioned in an interview to an area radio station as reported by Antigua News Room.

“The drawback is that if he’s despatched again to Antigua as a result of he’s an Antiguan citizen, regardless that his citizenship is unsettled, he nonetheless enjoys constitutional and authorized protections.

We have little question that his citizenship will in the end be revoked as a result of he didn’t disclose materials data,” Browne mentioned.

The Antiguan prime minister additionally claimed {that a} jet got here from India carrying essential documentation wanted for deportation of the businessman. There was, nonetheless, no rapid official affirmation from Indian authorities about it.

Earlier, the Dominica High Court had stayed the removing of Choksi from its soil and put a gag order on the developments until the matter is heard in an open court docket on June 2. Choksi, via his lawyer, has alleged that he was kidnapped from Jolly Harbour in Antigua and Barbuda by Antiguan and Indian trying policemen and was taken to Dominica.

Pictures believed to be of 62-year-old Choksi have additionally surfaced in Dominica exhibiting him with a purple, swollen eye and bruises on his fingers.

 

Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are needed for allegedly siphoning Rs 13,500 crore of public cash from the state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB) utilizing letters of endeavor. Both are going through a CBI and ED probe.

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