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Dominica Court extends stay on Mehul Choksi’s deportation

NEW DELHI: The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) on Friday, after taking notice of admissions made at the Mehul Choksi’s hebeas corpus request, controlled Dominican police from taking away the fugitive diamantaire in the Commonwealth of Dominica until further hearing in the subject.
Another hearing in the matter will be scheduled to occur on June 2.
Justice ME Birnie Stephenson of the ECSC on Friday set an injunction restraining the respondents if independently, servants, representatives and/or agents from removing the offender in the Commonwealth of Dominica till farther.
The Court also permitted Choksi to fulfill with his legal counsel and be transported to a hospital to get medical care and also for the government of a Covid-19 evaluation.
The Court also led the Dominican government to record their affidavits in response to this program.
It also limited media coverage in the subject.
The Court’s orders said:”There will not be any discussion or publication or discussion of the media regarding this subject without permission or leave of the courtroom.
” Julian Prevost, Wayne Norde, Cara Shillingford-Marsh, also Wayne Marsh Attorneys in Law emerged for Choksi and also the Attorney General Levy A Peter appeared on behalf of those respondents in the Subject.
The legal group of this diamantaire on Thursday filed a habeas corpus petition in Dominica and also has emphasized his deprivation of access to legal aid there.
Advocate Vijay Aggarwal, Mehul Choksi’s attorney from India stated:”The team has already filed a habeas corpus petition in Dominica to get Mehul Choksi and contains additionally emphasized deprivation of accessibility and inherent rights for legal help.
” Habeas Corpus is a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, notably to secure the individual’s discharge unless legal motives are revealed to their detention.
Previously Choksi’s attorney also asserted the”marks of torture” were reported to Choksi’s own body, who’d fled Antigua several days back and ended up at a nearby island state Dominica.
Aggarwal alleged that Choksi was picked from Antigua and subsequently carried to Dominica.
A large manhunt was launched following Choksi went missing an Interpol Yellow Notice premiered by Antigua and Barbuda.
He had been tracked and caught from Dominica.
In a private interview to ANI on Wednesday, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne had stated that the Allied diamantaire, that had been discovered in Dominica, could be repatriated to India and Indian police have been connected with people at Dominica.
Choksi along with his own nephew Nirav Modi have been needed in India for allegedly siphoned off Rs 13,500 crore of public funds in your state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB) with letters of job.

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