Prominent UK base Indian lawyer Harpreet Singh Giani who has joined the Indian legal team in Dominica in the Mahul Choksi matter has expressed confidence in their case.
Choksi arrived in Dominica on May 23, 2021, and alleges that he was kidnapped on Jolly Beach in Antigua and brought to Dominica against his will.
Since then, he has been in police custody and has been charged for “alleged illegal entry into Dominica.” He has pleaded “not guilty” to the charge and was denied bail in the magistrate’s court by Chief Magistrate Candia Carette-George.
His lawyers then went to the high court but last week, high court Judge Wynante Adrien-Roberts dealt him a major blow when she denied him bail and deemed him “a flight risk.”
Since being charged, Choksi has been a patient at the islands main hospital in the capital city Roseau and has obtained a medical sick certificate from doctors.
His matter came up again on June 17, 2021, and while his lawyers told the court that he was “very ill suffering from hematoma” Magistrate Pearl Williams ordered that he be “taken from the hospital and sent to the Dominica State Prison at Stock Farm to be remanded.”
However, his lawyers have vowed to challenge that decision. “He is sick, trembling, gasping for breath and suffering from hematoma he needs constant medical attention,” one member of the legal team told Nature Isle News (NIN).
And while Choksi is fighting not to be placed on remand at the State Prison, Indian Lawyer Harpreet Singh Giani who is in Dominica on behalf of the Indian government to assist in the matter says he is confident that the justice system in Dominica will do the right thing.
“I have an unshakable faith in the Dominican justice legal system and so I am sure that justice will prevail and the courts will do what is legally permissible,” he stated.
He says that he remains steadfast in their position to have Mehul Choksi return to India to face his trial. “I am very confident in our position that’s why I am in Dominica,” he said.
Harpreet is an experienced litigator, with 18 years of litigation experience in the Punjab & Haryana High Court (the Indian equivalent of the EAW Court of Appeal). His Indian practice spans commercial, corporate, constitutional, regulatory, property laws and arbitration.