Mehul Choksi's lawyer, Vijay Aggarwal, has announced plans to appeal for his client's release. Choksi was arrested in Belgium at the request of Indian authorities.
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00:00Say is that he has been arrested and it's a client or any privileged communication.
00:03Other details I'll not be able to give you, but this I can confirm that yes, my client has been arrested.
00:08He is in prison at the moment and the legal remedy that we have is that we'll be filing an appeal
00:12and there we'll be making a request that he should be released
00:18and he should be permitted to contest his case without being in custody.
00:22Were the grounds of the arrest explained to him during the time of the arrest?
00:25If so, what grounds has he actually been arrested?
00:28It's a procedure. It's a procedure. All details are yet to come to me.
00:31So at the moment I'll not be able to divulge all the details.
00:36Are you planning to challenge his arrest and ask for bail?
00:38There the procedure is that the extradition request itself is challenged.
00:42The process is challenged by filing an appeal and during that appeal you make a request there
00:45that my client should be permitted to contest the same without being in custody
00:49because he's not a flight risk and because of his medical condition.
00:52So are you planning to apply for bail as well?
00:53That's a request made. It's not technically called bail.
00:58That's a request that you made when you file an appeal.
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