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A UK court allows Nirav Modi to appeal on depression and suicide risk grounds

A High Court decide in London on Monday granted fugitive diamond service provider Nirav Modi permission to attraction against a magistrates' courtroom order in favour of extradition to India to face fees of fraud and cash laundering before the Indian courts on mental health and human rights grounds.


Justice Martin Chamberlain brought his verdict remotely beneath COVID-19 regulations to finish that the arguments provided by means of the 50-12 months-antique diamond service provider's legal group regarding his excessive despair and high hazard of suicide have been controversial at a considerable listening to.



He additionally noted that the adequacy of the measures able to stopping a success suicide attempts at Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai, where Nirav Modi is to be detained upon extradition, additionally fall within the arguable ambit.


At this stage, the question for me is certainly whether or not the appellant's case on these grounds in all fairness debatable. In my judgment, it's far. I will supply permission to attraction on Grounds three and four, Justice Chamberlain's ruling notes. Grounds 3 and four relate to Article three of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), or the right to existence, liberty and security, and Section ninety one of the United Kingdom's Criminal Justice Act 2003 associated with health to plead.


The decide referred to that the arguments made underneath each grounds overlap in this case as they each rely mainly at the appellant, Nirav Modi's intellectual unwell health.


I will not restriction the basis on which the ones grounds may be argued, even though it seems to me that there should be a particular focus on whether or not the judge become wrong to attain the belief he did, given the evidence as to the severity of the appellant's [Nirav Modi's] depression, the excessive hazard of suicide and the adequacy of any measures capable of preventing a hit suicide tries in Arthur Road jail, the ruling notes.

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