BREAKING: Indian multi-agency team to reach Belgium ahead of Mehul Choksi's bail hearing

A high-level multi-agency team from India is set to travel to Belgium ahead of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi’s bail plea hearing scheduled later this month.

The team, comprising officials from the CBI, ED, and Ministry of External Affairs, aims to expedite legal and diplomatic efforts to ensure Choksi’s return to India.

Choksi, wanted in the Rs 13,850 crore PNB fraud case, was arrested on Saturday in Brussels after years on the run. The move came after local authorities confirmed his presence in the country.

Sources said that preparations were being made for his extradition to India. However, Choksi has started preparing for a legal battle, with lawyers looking to secure bail.

 

After the arrest of fugitive Indian businessman Mehul Choksi in Belgium, his lawyer, Vijay Aggarwal, said on Monday that they will be filing an appeal to release the businessman from custody, citing his ill health and ongoing cancer treatments.

"My client, Mehul Choksi, has been arrested in Belgium, and at the moment, he is in custody. We will be starting the process of filing an appeal against this, and then, as a process of appeal, we will be requesting that he be pulled out of prison. The major ground for the plea is his ill health and that he is undergoing cancer treatment, and ofcourse, he is not a flight risk at all," Choksi's lawyer, Vijay Aggarwal, told ANI in Delhi.