{"id":2650,"date":"2018-05-04T06:23:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T06:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2018-05-04T06:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T06:23:58","slug":"delhi-high-court-withdraws-mehul-choksis-interim-protection-from-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/delhi-high-court-withdraws-mehul-choksis-interim-protection-from-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi High Court withdraws Mehul Choksi\u2019s interim protection from arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; indianexpress.com<\/p>\n<p>The Delhi High Court today withdrew the interim protection from coercive action, including arrest, granted to Gitanjali Gems promoter Mehul Choksi in connection with an FIR lodged in 2016 by the owner of one of its retail franchisees.<\/p>\n<p>The order by Justice Mukta Gupta came after the police told the court that Choksi was not cooperating with the investigation as he was not available at any of the addresses given on his behalf earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Taking note of the submission made by Delhi Police, the court vacated its April 26, 2017 order by which the businessman was protected from any coercive action, including arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Choksi is the uncle of billionaire\u00a0Nirav Modi\u00a0and the investigative agencies have swung into action against both of them for the Rs 11,500 crore scam of Punjab National Bank.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/delhi-high-court-withdraws-mehul-choksis-interim-protection-from-arrest\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court today withdrew the interim protection from coercive action, including arrest, granted to Gitanjali Gems promoter Mehul Choksi in connection with an FIR lodged in 2016 by the owner of one of its retail franchisees. The order by Justice Mukta Gupta came after the police told the court that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,1963,1962,1822],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-investigative-agencies","tag-mehul-choksis","tag-nirav-modi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}