Nirav Modi extradition to India: UK courtroom permits attraction over his ‘severe depression, suicide risk’

A High Court choose in London on Monday granted fugitive diamond service provider Nirav Modi permission to attraction towards a magistrates’ courtroom order in favour of extradition to India to face prices of fraud and cash laundering earlier than the Indian courts on psychological well being and human rights grounds.
Justice Martin Chamberlain delivered his verdict remotely underneath Covid-19 guidelines to conclude that the arguments offered by the 50-year-old diamond service provider’s authorized group regarding his “severe depression” and “high risk of suicide” have been debatable at a considerable listening to.
He additionally famous that the adequacy of the measures able to stopping “successful suicide attempts” at Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai, the place Nirav Modi is to be detained upon extradition, additionally fall inside the debatable ambit.
“At this stage, the question for me is simply whether the appellant’s case on these grounds is reasonably arguable. In my judgment, it is. I will grant permission to appeal on Grounds 3 and 4,” Justice Chamberlain’s ruling notes.
Grounds 3 and 4 relate to Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), or the correct to life, liberty and safety, and Section 91 of the UK’s Criminal Justice Act 2003 associated to health to plead.
The choose famous that the arguments made underneath each grounds overlap on this case as they each rely principally on the appellant, Nirav Modi’s psychological sick well being.
“I will not restrict the basis on which those grounds can be argued, though it seems to me that there should be a particular focus on whether the judge was wrong to reach the conclusion he did, given the evidence as to the severity of the appellant’s [Nirav Modi’s] depression, the high risk of suicide and the adequacy of any measures capable of preventing successful suicide attempts in Arthur Road prison,” the ruling notes.
Permission to attraction on all different grounds was declined and the case will now proceed for a substantive listening to earlier than the High Court in London underneath Grounds 3 and 4.

The diamond service provider, needed in India to face prices of fraud and cash laundering within the estimated USD 2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) rip-off case, in the meantime stays at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London.
Nirav Modi is the topic of two units of prison proceedings, with the CBI case referring to a large-scale fraud upon PNB by way of the fraudulent acquiring of letters of endeavor (LoUs) or mortgage agreements, and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) case referring to the laundering of the proceeds of that fraud.
He additionally faces two extra prices of “causing the disappearance of evidence” and intimidating witnesses or “criminal intimidation to cause death”, which have been added to the CBI case.
India is a chosen Part 2 nation by advantage of the Extradition Act 2003, which suggests it’s the UK Cabinet minister who has the authority to order a requested individual’s extradition in spite of everything authorized points are handled within the courts.