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PNB scam: Mehul Choksi does not want to return to India due to mob lynching trend

An Indian supporters of the Congress Party keeps his hand on the face of a cut out of billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi during a protest in New Delhi on February 16, 2018. Indian investigators on February 15 raided the premises of a billionaire jeweller accused of defrauding one of the country’s biggest banks. Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers searched the Mumbai offices of Nirav Modi after he was accused of cheating state-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) of 2.8 billion rupees ($43.8 million). ( CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images)

By: Keerthi Mohan

Billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi’s uncle Mehul Choksi, who is a key accused in the multi-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, has expressed his reluctance to return to India saying he’s scared of the current mob lynching trend in the country. Choksi wrote to a special CBI court on Wednesday requesting the cancellation of a non-bailable warrant issued against him. “It is most respectfully submitted that there have been various reported cases of mob lynching and one of the cases was in relation to an accused who was mob lynched while being inside a jail. This recent trend of mob lynching…

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