Mehul Choksi's legal team to challenge arrest, extradition citing health grounds
PTC News Desk: Following the arrest of Indian fugitive Mehul Choksi in Belgium, his legal team will challenge the arrest and extradition.
Vijay Aggarwal, Choksi's lawyer said that his extradition back to India would be violation of his human rights.
"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," he said.
#WATCH | Delhi: On fugitive Mehul Choksi's arrest in Belgium, his Advocate Vijay Aggarwal says, "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… pic.twitter.com/l00ZhN1BY5 — ANI (@ANI) April 14, 2025
He further claimed that Choksi had not been declared a fugitive because he had remained cooperative with Indian probing agencies. He further added that a case on this matter has been going in for years.
"We have always maintained in the entire court that he is ready to join, but because of his medical condition, he cannot travel. That is why we initially maintained that the Indian agency can investigate, and he will join on VC (video conference). That is why, to date, everyone has been declared a fugitive, but Mehul Choksi is not a fugitive... Our case has been going on for years now," Aggarwal said.
- With inputs from agencies
