LONDON: NIRAV Modi made a last attempt to appeal to India in an audience in the High Court here on Wednesday.
Judge Chamberlain will reduce the assessment of whether NIRAV will be given permission to appeal in the coming weeks.
If he denies permission, NIRAV must be extradited to India within 28 days after his order unless he obtains an emergency order, known as a temporary step based on governing 39, from the European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg, France.
Temporary actions are usually decided in 48 hours.
NIRAV, 50, which was accused of causing losses to Punjab National Bank of more than $ 1 billion, money laundering, destroying evidence and intimidating witnesses, appearing through a video link from Wandsworth prison.
He was represented by Edward Fitzgerald QC, nicknamed “Rolls-Royce of Barristers”, who managed to defend Jabir Motiwala, Julian Assange and Lauri Love.
Fitzgerald told the court that Nirav was so unhealthy mentally he would be eligible to “split” under the England mental health law, and that he had a long history of depression and suicidal thinking, which ran in the family when his mother jumped from the balcony when He is eight years old.
Arguing that the Sam Goozée District Judge in the High Court, in sending NIRAV cases to the secretary of the house, it has been wrong to dismiss the state of depression as “far from unusual” and the risk of suicide because it is not “direct”, Fitzgerald said Nirav was considered to kill himself with a knife Shaving “to avoid getting killed”.
Helen Malcom QC, representing the Indian government, said it was not oppressive to extradite “anyone who is depressed and considers suicide”.
But Fitzgerald believes it will oppress to extradite NIRAV if he can become unworthy to be asked in the future.
Fitzgerald also argues that the “perverse” of the judge told Video Barak 12 in Arthur Road Prison showed better conditions than Wandsworth prison, saying that the prison was crowded and full of covid, and “the health care system in India was above the collapse of the collapse” , Fitzgerald claims NIRAV will be rejected a fair trial in India because there is a “increase in politicization of Indian Judges” and there have been a repeated public complaint “Prejudice ‘Guilty of Niousav by Indian government ministers, including Ravi Shankar Prasad and Nirmala Sitharaman, also as” pre- Free punishment trials “by the judges, including Justice Manmohan Singh.
He quoted” Freezing Assets of Amnesty International “and the United Nations Working Group on arbitrary detention decisions on Christian Michel’s” Persecution “as an example of” damaging the law “in India.
But Malcolm said India has an arrogant independent legal tradition and there has never been a case of extradition rejected because of the rejection of a fair trial in India.
Nirav stated he committed suicide and would not get a fair trial in India
