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By Gemma Handy gemma.handy@antiguaobserver.com Fugitive diamond dealer Mehul Choksi is set to stay in Dominica for at least the next few days after the country’…

Choksis lawyers stated in their writ petition that he was denied legal rights and was not permitted to meet with his legal counsel initially

The court passed the order after Mehul Choksis legal team in Dominica filed a habeas corpus petition and pointed out that he was denied legal rights and was not permitted to meet his lawyers initially

Choksis lawyer in Dominica, Wayne Marsh, had told a radio show that in a brief interaction with his client, allowed by authorities after a lot of efforts, the diamantaire had claimed that he was picked up at Jolly Harbour in Antigua and Barbuda by men looking like Indian and Antiguan policemen and was put in a vessel.

Mehul Choksi's lawyer has alleged that there are ‘marks of torture’ on the fugitive diamantaire's body. 

Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi won’t be deported yet as a Dominica court on Friday stayed on his repatriation. The court passed the order after Mehul Choksi's legal team filed a habeas corpus petition and pointed out that he was denied legal rights.

NEW DELHI : A court in Dominica has "restrained" authorities from removing fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi from the Caribbean island country till

As per a media report, India’s High Commissioner to Port of Spain, Arun Kumar Sahu is likely to travel to Dominica next week seeking formal extradition of Mehul Choksi. 

Mehul Choksis lawyer said he saw marks on the body of Choksi who had swollen eyes and feared for his life.

The order came on a petition filed by the lawyers of Choksi, who was detained in Dominica for “illegal entry”.