What is India’s Case for Extraditing Mehul Choksi from Antigua?

Choksi was detained on 23 May in the island country of Dominica on charges of entering the country illegally.

After being in police custody in Dominica for 51 days, fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi landed in Antigua and Barbuda for treatment, a local news agency reported on Thursday, 15 July.

The 62-year-old was granted interim bail by Dominica High Court on medical grounds on Monday, 12 July, allowing him to travel to the Caribbean country.

To bring you up to speed, Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are the key accused in the Rs 13,400 crore Punjab National Bank scam of 2017. Both fled India in January 2018 before the CBI could file a case against them and have been absconding since.