The Antwerp Court of Appeal has ruled that Indian businessman Mehul Choksi faces no real or serious risk of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, or flagrant denial of justice if sent back to India, paving the way for his extradition to face prosecution in the Punjab National Bank fraud case. (Mehul Choksi v. Public Prosecutor General of the Court of Appeal, Antwerp) . A Bench of President D Thys and Judges K Lenaers and I Arnauts dismissed Choksi’s appeal and upheld the November 2024 order of the Antwerp trial court that had declared two Indian arrest warrants executable India’s Ministry of External Affairs had sought Choksi’s extradition based on arrest warrants issued by the Special Judge for CBI Cases, Greater Mumbai, in connection with charges of criminal conspiracy,

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