London, March 28
The stage is set for a busy period of Indian extradition-related activity in the UK courts as liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s High Court appeal moves forward for a judge’s verdict on paperwork, and fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi returns to Westminster Magistrates’ Court here for a second bail hearing on Friday.
“All the papers have been received and are now awaiting allocation to a single judge who will decide, on the basis of those papers, if permission is given to go to a full hearing,” said a spokesperson for the UK judiciary, in reference to Mallya’s application seeking an appeal against his extradition. While there is no set time-scale for the judge to pronounce a decision on whether Mallya will be granted an appeal in the UK High Court, a decision is likely within the next few weeks.
Nirav, 48, has been lodged in HMP Wandsworth prison in south-west London since last Wednesday, when a judge had declined his request for bail on the grounds that he posed a flight risk. — PTI
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