On Monday, the Magistrate Court was to start hearing the case of Choksi’s “ illegal entry” into the country on May 23 but he was “no show”, so the Dominica Magistrate Court has adjourned till june 25 the hearing into alleged illegal entry of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi into the Caribbean island nation, local media reported.
Mehul Choksi’s legal team submitted a medical certificate from the doctors of Dominica china friendship Hospital, where Choksi is being held, of “mental stress” and elevated blood pressure.
Chief Magistrate Carette-George adjourned the matter to June 25 and ordered to keep choksi, wanted in the Rs.13,500 crore Punjab National Bank Scam case, under police watch at the hospital.
He also asked authorities to present Choksi before the court on June 17 for further remand.
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