Having exhausted all possible appellate avenues in the court system of Belgium, where he is being held for extradition, India's Most Wanted fugitive, the two billion dollar man, MEHUL CHOKSKI, attempts one last desperate legal maneuver, seeking to block the criminal court proceedings he anticipates will begin upon his arrival.
Choksi's team of attorneys in India have claimed that he cannot be prosecuted as a Fugitive Economic Offender by the Enforcement Directorate, due to an obscure provision in the Companies Act that his attorneys assert provides such action is blocked, due to the case brought against him by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office, under the same allegations.
The Court rejected this argument, holding that the prohibition mentioned in the Companies Act is not a bar to other proceedings for offenses under other acts. The prosecutor had also argued that Choksi's counsel had failed to act timely, and waived such an argument, which was only being filed for the purposes of delay, and without legal merit. We await the news that Mehul Choksi, after a delay approaching a decade, will finally be in the dock in a court of law in India, to face justice.
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