Will appeal for Mehul Choksi's release in Belgium, says lawyer

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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.

01:01Okay.

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