{"id":311687,"date":"2019-04-26T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311687"},"modified":"2019-04-26T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:59:51","slug":"uk-court-denies-bail-to-fugitive-businessman-nirav-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uk-court-denies-bail-to-fugitive-businessman-nirav-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Court denies bail to Fugitive businessman Nirav Modi"},"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=\"396\" height=\"358\" 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: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fugitive Indian businessman Nirav Modi, who is undergoing extradition proceedings in the UK in the Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case was denied bail by a UK 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;\">Nirav\u2019s bail has been denied for the third time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He appeared before the Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court through video link from the jail.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 48-year-old has been behind bars at Wandsworth prison in south-west London since his arrest last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Westminster court has further extended the police custody till May 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On March 29, Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot rejected Nirav Modi&#8217;s bail request mentioning that there was\u00a0&#8220;substantial risk he would fail to surrender&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirav Modi was arrested by uniformed Scotland Yard officers on March 19 and sent to jail after his first bail appeal was denied.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fugitive Indian businessman Nirav Modi, who is undergoing extradition proceedings in the UK in the Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case was denied bail by a UK court on Friday. Nirav\u2019s bail has been denied for the third time. He appeared before the Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court through video link [&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":[541,3408],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311687"}],"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=311687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311689,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311687\/revisions\/311689"}],"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=311687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}