Mehul Choksi faced a major setback when Belgium’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal, allowing his extradition to India in connection with the Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank scam. Arrested in Antwerp in April, Choksi was denied bail as concerns remain over his flight risk. His nephew Nirav Modi is also fighting extradition from London.
Then-Finance Minister P Chidambaram had signed off the termination of the whistleblower. This raised the possibility that efforts to suppress internal warnings about the fraud were not only bureaucratic, but also sanctioned at the political level.
Supreme Court has recently set aside a 2017 judgement of the Gujarat High Court, which quashed an FIR registered by the State Police in 2015 against the fugitive businessman Mehul Chinubhai Choksi