Mehul Choksi held ‘fleeing’, lawyer contests not citizen, can’t be sent to India

Friday, 28 May 2021Newsdesk
Mehul Choksi held ‘fleeing’, lawyer contests not citizen, can’t be sent to India
A day after fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi was arrested in the island nation of Dominica, Gaston Browne, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, said he had requested Dominica to repatriate Choksi to India directly. However, Choksi’s lawyer Vijay Aggarwal said his client was no longer an Indian citizen and, under the existing laws, cannot be repatriated to India. A statement by the Dominican government also indicated that Choksi might be sent back to Antigua.

New Delhi, 28 May 2021

In an interview to news agency ANI, Browne said, “The Dominican government is cooperating with the Antiguan and Indian governments. We have requested Dominican law enforcement agencies to not return him to Antigua, where he has legal and constitutional rights as a citizen. We specifically requested them to have Indian law enforcement agencies make necessary arrangements to have him returned directly to India.”

Source -The Indian Express

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