New Delhi, April 15 -- After a failed attempt to get Mehul Choksi deported from Dominica in 2021, where he was taken mysteriously from Antigua and Barbuda - he had become a citizen after fleeing India - the Central Bureau of Investigation kept a continuous watch on the fugitive.
The agency's global operations centre, which geolocates Indian fugitives abroad, tracked Choksi in July 2024 in Antwerp, where he went for medical treatment.
While India had no extradition treaty with Dominica and the only option was to get him deported from there, New Delhi and Brussels have had a treaty since 1901, so the CBI didn't want to take any chances this time and decided to move quickly.
An officer confirmed that Choksi was indeed undergoing medical tre...