New Delhi: A court in Dominica has prolonged the stay on the extradition of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi from Dominica.
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) on Friday (May 28) restrained Dominican authorities from eradicating Choksi from the Commonwealth of Dominica till additional discover. The court has set June 2 as the subsequent date of listening to.
The court, whereas listening to the diamantaire’s habeas corpus petition, put an injunction restraining the respondents whether or not by themselves, servants, brokers and/or representatives from eradicating the applicant from the Commonwealth of Dominica till additional listening to on the matter, ANI reported.
Further, the court allowed the businessman to satisfy his legal counsel and be transported to a hospital for medical consideration in addition to get a COVID-19 take a look at.
Restricting media protection of the matter, the court order learn, “There shall be no publication or dialogue or notification of the press relating to this matter with out depart or permission of the court.”
On Thursday, Choksi’s legal group had filed a habeas corpus petition in Dominica and claimed he was disadvantaged of access to legal help there.
Wayne Marsh, Choksi’s lawyer in Dominica, alleged that his shopper was ‘severely beaten’ and was ‘abducted’ in Antigua and brought to Dominica. Further, he stated they had been denied access to their shopper and it was solely on May 27 that he was allowed to talk to Choksi.
Choksi’s lawyer Vijay Aggarwal claimed that the Gitanjali group chairman was picked up by numerous folks, ‘forced’ to get right into a vessel from Antigua after which was taken to Dominica. He alleged there are ‘marks of torture’ on Choksi’s physique.
Earlier, in an unique interview with WION on Wednesday (May 26), Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne had stated that Mehul Choksi might be despatched again to India within the subsequent 48 hours from Dominica the place he was captured whereas ‘trying to flee’.
