The Congress on Saturday attacked the government, saying fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi could not be brought back to India due to "incompetence". Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh in a tweet said, "Mehulbhai seems to be leading a charmed life." He also posted a media report that claimed that Choksi has won the first round of a court battle to prove that a UK-based group, including a younger woman, was part of an Indian intelligence service plot to lure him to a Caribbean villa to be kidnapped and extradited to his home country.
"First Interpol gave him relief and now this," Ramesh tweeted. Choksi, who is wanted in a Rs 13,000-crore scam in the Punjab National Bank, has been removed from the Interpol database of Red Notices on the basis of his plea to the Lyon-headquartered agency. "There is simply no excuse for not bringing him back till now except incompetence or connivance," the Congress leader said.
