London, Nov. 9 (PTI): Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi on Wednesday lost his appeal against extradition to India on mental health grounds as the High Court in London ruled that his risk of suicide is not such that it would be either unjust or oppressive to extradite him to face charges of fraud and money laundering. Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith and Justice Robert Jay, who presided over the appeal hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice earlier this year, said in their verdict that District Judge Sam Goozee’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court order from last year in favour of extradition was sound . The leave to appeal in the High Court had been granted on two grounds related to mental health under Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and Section 91 of the Extradition Act 2003. The 51-year-old fugitive diamond merchant has the option of further appeals in the UK and European courts and the process to bring him back to stand trial in India is unlike
Nirav Modi today lost his appeal against extradition on mental health grounds as the high court in UK ruled that his risk of suicide is not such that it would be either unjust or oppressive to extradite him to India.
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Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith and Justice Robert Jay, who heard the appeal earlier this year, delivered the verdict that allowed the fugitive businessman s extradition to India, according to reports.Nira