Mehul Choksi's deportation: Conspiracy theories emerge as Dominica court adjourns case

MUMBAI: The High Court of Justice in Dominica has adjourned the case pertaining to the deportation of diamantaire Mehul Choksi, wanted in India in connection with the PNB scam.


The court deferred the hearing in the habeas corpus petition till Wednesday, June 2, even as new facts and conspiracy theories have started flying around in the matter.


While ordering the adjournment, the judge asked the lawyers to not talk about the case as it is still sub-judice. On Thursday, the court had restrained the government from repatriating Choksi to Antigua.

Choksi’s team of lawyers, consisting of Wayne Norde, Wayne Marsh, Cara Shillingford-Marsh, and Julian Prevost, have claimed that in the 'abduction' of their client from the Jolly Harbour area of Antigua, a couple of Indians were involved along with a few Antiguans. All of them, it is being alleged, are cops from the two countries. The arrest of Choksi was apparently made on Monday and not Tuesday, as was earlier reported.

They lawyers have said that a yacht of about 60-70ft long, bearing a Dominican flag, carried Choksi to Toucary, a remote beach village in Dominica. The two Indian cops are said to have stayed put in the Fort Young Hotel in the capital city of Roseau.

For the record, the Dominican police have charged him with entering the country illegally and kept him in detention since Monday.

Further, it is also being said that the Indian government has kept a charter flight ready in the Dominican capital to take the fugitive diamond merchant back to India where he faces charges of criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating and dishonesty, corruption and money laundering in the PNB scam.

In the Caribbean media, meanwhile, Choksi’s alleged disappearance, 'abduction,' arrest is the biggest story with all papers, websites, television and radio stations devoting much time and space to the fugitive Indian.

Choksi became untraceable in Antigua on Sunday and was rumoured to have fled to Cuba. That theory was debunked when he was held in Dominica.


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