Legal expert on diamond businessman Nirav Modi's plea to appeal against extradition

NEW DELHI: The only remedy left for fugitive diamond businessman Nirav Modi to prevent his extradition to India is to seek permission to appeal against his order in the country's top court, a legal expert has said.

Nirav Modi has reportedly filed an application in the High Court in London, seeking permission to appeal against his extradition order, two weeks after a UK court dismissed his plea against extradition back to India. "He (Nirav Modi) will be approaching the Supreme Court that is the only remedy left. Even before he goes to the Supreme court, he will have to take leave from the High Court of the UK to have a determination on the point that the issue involved is of very high public importance. Only then he can approach the Supreme Court, that too within 14 days," said advocate Arpit Batra.

On the validity of Nirav's grounds for his plea, the lawyer said, "Yes, ...the grounds are valid but the extradition court in the UK, as well as the High Court, had boldly stated in their order sheets that he may be suffering from the tendency of suicide or he may be into depression but the threshold is not so high that it will be unjust to send him to India."

On changes of Nirav getting relief from the UK SC, Batra said, "If you see the high court order, we don't see much in his hands but he is trying to make an attempt. Past orders do not favour him in any case. He has been languishing in jail for a long time."

Next course of remedy, the lawyer answered, "Once the appeal is dismissed by the supreme court, Nirav Modi can approach the European Court of Human Rights. Post-Brexit, the European court can still take the matter."

On November 9, Nirav Modi lost his appeal against extradition to India with a United Kingdom court dismissing his plea. Earlier, the High Court of London (United Kingdom) dismissed the appeal of Nirav Modi, who is wanted in India to face money laundering and fraud cases. (ANI)

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