Overview

• Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh told the Mumbai special court that the FEO application filed in 2018 remains maintainable until Choksi appears in India.
• The Enforcement Directorate argued that Choksi left India on January 7, 2018 and has chosen to stay away while contesting surrender in Belgium.
• Choksi’s lawyers asked the court to drop the FEO bid, claiming his Belgian detention counts as custody that bars a fugitive tag.
• He was arrested in Belgium in April on a Central Bureau of Investigation extradition request and remains in prison there pending a decision on surrender.
• Prosecutors said they could reconsider the FEO push if he returns, as the court continues hearing the plea and cites Nirav Modi’s 2020 designation as a precedent.