Choksi's lawyers call escape & arrest 'fishy', move Dominica court

Lawyers of fugitive diamond Mehul Choksi, who was detained in Dominica, have filed a habeas corpus petition in a court of the Carribean island country. Move came after they were allegedly not given access to him, his legal counsel Vijay Aggarwal said.

Earlier in the day, Aggarwal had raised doubts about the way Choksi had gone missing from Antigua and Barbuda only to be detained in Dominica.

His lawyer in Dominica, Wayne Marsh, told a radio show that in a brief interaction with Choksi, the wanted businessman had claimed that he was picked up at Jolly Harbour in Antigua and Barbuda by men looking like Indian and Antiguan policemen and was put in a vessel.

Marsh had said he saw marks on the body of Choksi who had swollen eyes and feared for his life. He said Choksi is a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda and not India hence he should be sent back.

Aggarwal called the entire episode of his mysterious disappearance and detention in Dominica "fishy".