{"id":310905,"date":"2019-03-29T15:53:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310905"},"modified":"2019-03-29T15:56:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:56:42","slug":"pnb-fraud-case-nirav-modi-denied-bail-by-london-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pnb-fraud-case-nirav-modi-denied-bail-by-london-court\/","title":{"rendered":"PNB fraud case: Nirav Modi denied bail by London Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310908 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nirav-modi-1-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/nirav-modi-1-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/nirav-modi-1-464x420.jpg 464w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/nirav-modi-1.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi was denied bail for the second time by a London court on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The authorities had submitted a new file of evidence with the court ahead of Nirav\u2019s appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Toby Cadman, representing crown prosecution on behalf of Indian authorities argued in court that there was a great risk of Nirav Modi fleeing if he was granted bail. &#8220;There is a risk that he could flee, attempt to interfere with witnesses, interfere with evidence,&#8221; the prosecution said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Giving details of Modi\u2019s attempt to interfere with witnesses, the UK prosecutor made specific reference to one such witness who Nirav Modi \u201cthreatened to kill in a phone call\u201d and also offered him an incentive to evade arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirav Modi&#8217;s attorney Claire Montgomery, who had earlier represented another fugitive tycoon &#8211; former Kingfisher Airlines boss Vijay Mallya in his extradition case said that his client is not a great flight risk. \u201cHe has lived openly in the UK\u00a0and made no effort to hide,\u201d Claire added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The case is being heard by Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot, the same judge who had ordered the extradition of Vijay Mallya last December.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi was denied bail for the second time by a London court on Friday. The authorities had submitted a new file of evidence with the court ahead of Nirav\u2019s appearance. Toby Cadman, representing crown prosecution on behalf of Indian authorities argued in court that there was a great risk of Nirav Modi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[11214,541],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310909,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310905\/revisions\/310909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}