India seems to be going all out as it has sent a private jet to get Mehul Choksi repatriated directly from Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has told the local media there.
A Bombardier Global 5,000 jet of Qatar Executive mysteriously landed at Dominica’s Douglas Charles airport on Saturday. It’s publicly accessible flight path shows that it took off from New Delhi on May 28 and reached Dominica via Madrid.
PM Browne, who has been vocal about not accepting Choksi back in his country, where he is a citizen, said, “My understanding is that [the] Indian government has sent certain documentation from courts in India to confirm that Choksi is indeed a fugitive”. These documents, Browne added, will be utilised in the court case in Dominica, where a judge is hearing the matter and has put a stay on repatriation till Wednesday.
“Indian government seems to be going all out to make sure he is repatriated to India to stand trial,” Browne told a FM channel in Antigua. The interview was posted by Antigua Newsroom on its website.
Indian officials were tight lipped about the team which has flown to Dominica along with the documents, but they said this was their “window of opportunity” to bring Choksi to India because once he reaches Antigua, he will have citizenship rights and the extradition case can linger on for years.
Antiguan PM Browne on Saturday accused the country’s key opposition party – United Progressive Party (UPP) of taking funds from Mehul Choksi for its political campaigns.
The UPP had issued a statement on Saturday in favour of Choksi saying that he should get his constitutional and legal rights as a citizen of Antigua.
Browne had hit back at UPP saying – “After mischievously accusing my administration of harbouring Mehul Choksi, who has an Interpol Red Notice, they are now seeking to sanitise this fugitive to get campaign funding…There has been no violation of Choksi’s legal and constitutional protections, despite the decision of my administration to revoke his citizenship.”
Earlier, on Saturday, Antigua Newsroom had released Mehul Choksi’s pictures while in custody of Dominica police.
In one of the photos, he is seen standing behind bars with his left eye swollen while another photo showed bruises on his arm.
Choksi’s lawyers Wayne Marsh and Vijay Aggarwal had alleged the businessman was abducted from Antigua and tortured on the way to Dominica and in custody.
He had gone missing from Antigua last Sunday following which a manhunt had begun in the region.
To be sure, Choksi is currently out of police custody and has been placed at a quarantine facility in Roseau, where he is allowed to meet his lawyers.
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Did they recover the documents he dumped into the sea upon arrival in Dominica?
What has become of the female he was last seen with?
I heard about this but is it really true or just rumor?
I watched them report it on Indian news channel
That misfit is going back to India. UPP keep your hands out of this. The law is for the lawless. He’ll see be home in India, safe and secure for a long long time.
Do you think that what is being witnessed here is nothing but a scheming plan orchestrated by the governments of Antigua, Dominica and India?
Maybe, for more AstraZeneca and of course, something for the pockets.
Choksi is in deep shit despite his constitutional rights.
World dictator traitor tyrant liar Gaston Browne is doing the same. That scum Gaston is going all out to get rid of Choksi. 1st the “forged” signatures and Nigel Christian and now this.
World dictator traitor tyrant liar Gaston Browne is getting desperate.
World dictator traitor tyrant liar Gaston Browne is now acting like a spoiled brat.
Go back to Point where you come from. Your time soon come.
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