Mehul Choksi is accused throughout the Rs 13,500-crore Punjab Nationwide Monetary establishment fraud case.
New Delhi:
The Delhi Extreme Courtroom docket on Monday sought responses from the Centre and on-line video streaming platform Netflix on PNB rip-off accused Mehul Choksi”s attraction in opposition to the dismissal of his plea to pre-screen the “Unhealthy Boy Billionaires” docuseries.
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan issued uncover to the Centre and Netflix and sought their stand by September 23 on Choksi’s attraction.
Advocate Vijay Aggarwal, exhibiting for the PNB rip-off accused, talked about he was solely searching for that the matter be remanded once more to the one determine who had dismissed as not maintainable the plea to pre-screen the docuseries.
The one determine had on August 28 denied any assist to Choksi, saying a writ petition for enforcement of a private correct was not maintainable.
The extreme court docket docket had talked about his therapy lies in a civil go nicely with and granted him the liberty to spice up the issue in a civil go nicely with.
Choksi, the promoter of Gitanjali Gems, and his nephew, Nirav Modi, are accused throughout the Rs 13,500-crore Punjab Nationwide Monetary establishment (PNB) fraud case.
Choksi left the nation last yr and was granted citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda.
The documentary, which was scheduled for launch in India on September 2, was promoted by Netflix as: “This investigative docuseries explores the greed, fraud and corruption that constructed up – and in the long run launched down – India”s most infamous tycoons”.
