UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has signed off on the order to extradite Nirav Modi, wanted in India on fraud and money laundering charges related to the estimated USD 2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, senior Indian diplomatic sources in the UK said on Friday. Modi, 50, who remains behind bars at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London, has 14 days to apply for permission to appeal against the Home Secretary s order in the High Court in London. Back on February 25, the Westminster Magistrates Court had concluded that the diamond merchant has a case to answer before the Indian courts, leaving the sign off on the order with the Cabinet minister.
UK govt clears fugitive Nirav Modi s extradition to India
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NICOLA Sturgeon has denied “weaponising” children’s rights in order to pick an election fight with Westminster after criticism from Scotland’s top lawyer. The First Minister was put on the defensive after she and her ministers repeatedly accused the UK Government of trying to undermine children’s rights. The UK Government’s law officers last week raised a legal challenge against a recent Holyrood Bill intended to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law on the grounds it encroached on Westminster’s powers. The UK Government warned Edinburgh last month about specific legal issues with four sections of the Bill and asked for changes, but deputy First Minister John Swinney refused, calling it a “menacing” letter.
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