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Nirav Modi to appear via videolink for customary remand hearing in UK

Modi has been lodged at Wandsworth prison in south-west London since his arrest in March on an extradition warrant executed by Scotland Yard

Current Affairs:-Criminal diamantaire Nirav Modi, needed in India regarding the almost $2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) misrepresentation and tax evasion case, is set to show up under the steady gaze of a UK court for his standard 28-day remand hearing on Thursday.

The 48-year-old is probably going to be educated regarding the dates for his preliminary on the removal charges brought by the Indian government, being spoken to at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London by the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Modi has been held up at Wandsworth jail in south-west London since his capture in March on a removal warrant executed by Scotland Yard.

Boss Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot had directed the last remand hearing at the court by means of videolink from the jail where Modi is being held, during which she had shown that the dates for an expected five-day preliminary would be commonly concurred by the two sides soon.

According to the timetables talked about during the concise hearing, the judge said she expected to get all the proof and skeleton contention packages for the situation by April 8, with a five-day hearing at that point expected to be opened in May one year from now.

There are probably going to be various case the board hearings in front of that yet in the mean time an arranged case the executives hearing for next Monday was cleared as not required.

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Mehul Choksi will be brought back to India to face the law: Rajnath

Government sources said India continues to pursue Choksi’s return with the government of Antigua through diplomatic and legal channels
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh

Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday attested that fleeing diamantaire Mehul Choksi won’t be saved and will be taken back to India to confront the law.

Singh, who established the framework stone for a Kendriya Vidyalaya at a CISF camp, said this in light of an inquiry regarding Choksi surrendering his Indian Passport to the High Commission in Guyana.

The precious stone gem specialist had taken citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda after his name sprung up in the $2 billion extortion at a Mumbai-based part of the PNB alongside his nephew and agent Nirav Modi.

“We have brought the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act and there is a procedure under that law (to check misrepresentation cases). He (Choksi) will be conveyed to India without a doubt. Nobody will be saved. Move will be made against everybody,” the priest said on the sidelines of the occasion.

According to the law, Indian subjects are relied upon to surrender their international IDs when they get remote nationality.

Government sources said India keeps on pursueing Choksi’s arrival with the legislature of Antigua through political and lawful channels.

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