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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Parry and Daniel Boffey

Businessman who alleges Indian kidnap plot wins Antiguan court ruling

Mehul Choksi
Mehul Choksi is wanted on fraud and money laundering charges in India. Photograph: Hindustan Times/Getty Images

A fugitive Indian-born businessman 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.

The high court of Antigua and Barbuda has found that Mehul Choksi has an “arguable” case in relation to his civil claim against the country’s attorney general and chief of police over the response to his alleged abduction and illegal rendition to Dominica in May 2021.

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