New Delhi: Dominica High Court on Thursday (June 3, 2021) adjourned the listening to on a habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of fugitive diamond dealer Mehul Choksi, native media reported.
The native stories additionally revealed that Judge Bernie Stephenson will resolve the following date of listening to after assembly either side. The adjournment of the listening to is to enable attorneys for Choksi and the Dominica Government “to agree on the language to be used with respect to the injunction filed to prevent his removal from Dominica”, the media outlet reported.
The listening to of the case was performed through video conferencing, whereas the skin of the court witnessed a gathering of protesters, a few of which have been carrying “Who brought Choksi to Dominica?” placards.Â
Meanwhile, Antigua Information Minister Melford Nicholas mentioned that he’s not authorised to disclose any intelligence info relating to the case. An intelligence report has been offered to the Antigua Cabinet relating to Mehul Choksi’s lacking case and the mysterious woman who was with him in Dominica.
Information Minister of Antigua, Nicholas mentioned, “We did receive intelligence briefings, I am not authorised to disclose any particular intelligence information on the basis that it could prejudice the investigation that is taking place.”
“I don’t know about the law enforcement officials here but clearly they will have to interfere with law enforcement officials in Dominica as the matter is in the court,” added Nicholas.
The decide had on Wednesday ordered manufacturing of Mehul Choksi earlier than a Justice of the Peace to face prices of unlawful entry into Dominica. The 62-year-old wheelchair-bound diamantaire arrived earlier than the Roseau Magistrate Court from the Dominica China Friendship Hospital the place he’s present process therapy.
Earlier, Mehul Choksi’s spouse Priti Choksi had additionally mentioned that the mysterious woman who’s rumored to be his girlfriend is thought to her husband and to his different acquaintances.
“The woman was known to my husband and to his other acquaintances. She walked with my husband periodically when she was visiting Antigua. From what I have understood from people who have met her, the woman shown on media channels is not the same woman that they knew as Barbara,” mentioned Priti Choksi.
These developments got here after Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne final week had mentioned Mehul Choksi was within the nation to meet his girlfriend for a romantic journey when he was busted.
Mehul Choksi’s lawyer claimed that his consumer went lacking on May 23 from Antigua and Barbuda the place he has been staying since 2018 as a citizen. His attorneys additionally alleged that he was kidnapped from Jolly Harbour in Antigua by policemen trying like Antiguan and Indian and introduced to Dominica on a ship.Â
The lawyer additionally added that the one query in entrance of the Dominican court is whether or not he entered Dominica illegally or not and whether or not the native police has the proper to preserve him in custody.
The occasions return to 2018, when Mehul Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi had fled India within the first week of January days earlier than a Rs 13,500 crore rip-off in Punjab National Bank rocked the Indian banking trade.
(With Agency inputs)
