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PNB fraud: Mehul Choksi seeks cancellation of NBW over threat to life on TV
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SME Times News Bureau | 22 Sep, 2018
Gitanjali Group owner Mehul Choksi, wanted in Rs 13,500 crore Punjab
National Bank (PNB) fraud case, on Friday moved a special CBI court
claiming danger to his life after his return to India and sought
cancellation of a non-bailable warrant issued against him.
In an
application filed through his lawyer Sanjay Abbott, Choksi said his
"apprehensions over his safety are based upon what transpired during a
recent television debate on the fraud".
In his application,
Choksi informed the court that he was shocked to watch a TV debate on
July 27, 2018 in which two callers on live television suggested that a
special team consisting of special agents should be formed and suggested
that the team should track the whereabouts of the present applicant and
he (Choksi) should be "shot down".
Choksi further said that the
anchor also did not criticise the comment made by the caller and tactily
agreed to it without any retaliation or without condemning the comment,
"he laughingly said ok".
Choksi said the caller also declared
that the applicant (Choksi) is guilty and said that "killing of one
person will set an example".
"The above facts make it clear that
the present applicant (Choksi) has serious threat to life on his return
as if a person is having the audacity to suggest to shoot the applicant
on national television, then one can easily imaging the threat that the
applicant (Choksi) is facing if he returns to India," it said.
Choksi,
who had acquired Antiguan citizenship ealier this year, through his
lawyer also sent some audio and video CDs claiming that they contained
the cited footage from the news channel debate.
He has urged the
court to make his submission a part of the court records and, in light
of the same, to cancel the non bailable warrant issued against him.
On
May 22 this year, the court had issued the NBW against Choksi after
taking cognisance of the second charge sheet filed in the PNB fraud case
by the CBI.
Choksi's lawyer speaking to IANS said, "The court
has directed the CBI to file reply on the submissions made by Choksi by
October 3 which is the next date of hearing."
Earlier in June
this year, Choksi had filed a plea claiming that he had been advised bed
rest on account of his ill health following a "heart operation".
In
his plea Choksi also said that he feared that once in India, the probe
agencies would not help him secure the kind of medical treatment and
supervision he required.
He had also raised the issue of "trend
of mob lynching" in the country, and he feared that he might become a
victim of such lynching.
Choksi and Nirav Modi are under probe by
both the CBI and ED. The ED had on May 24 and 26 filed the chargesheets
against both. The court took cognisance and issued non-bailable
warrants against them.
Nirav Modi left India along with his
family in the first week of January, weeks before the scam was reported
to the CBI. His wife Ami, a US citizen, left on January 6 and Choksi on
January 4.
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