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The lawsuit of fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi challenging his extradition volition travel up for proceeding earlier Belgium's Supreme Court — the Court of Cassation — connected December 9, officials said connected Thursday (November 20, 2025)
Mr. Choksi has challenged earlier Belgium's apical tribunal an October 17 ruling of the Antwerp Court of Appeal that upheld India's petition for his extradition portion terming it "enforceable".
In effect to queries by the PTI, Advocaat-generaal Henri Vanderlinden said the Court of Cassation volition perceive the lawsuit connected December 9.
The Court of Cassation lone checks the determination of the tribunal of entreaty "on ineligible aspects" specified arsenic whether the tribunal of entreaty correctly applied the ineligible dispositions, and whether they travel the close procedure, helium told PTI.
"So, caller facts oregon grounds cannot beryllium placed," helium said.
"The proceedings are, successful essence, a written one. As a rule, each cases are heard. If the tribunal refuses to admit the appeal, it volition beryllium connected ineligible grounds, for example, the idiosyncratic who filed the ailment did not person the ineligible competence to bash so," Mr. Vanderlinden explained.
He said the parties indispensable convey their complaints successful penning "on the moment" they entreaty to the court.
"They cannot adhd immoderate different complaints aft that moment. During the hearing, they tin make those complaints, but thing else," helium said, giving details astir the process successful the Court of Cassation.
On October 17, a four-member indictment enclosure astatine the Court of Appeals successful Antwerp did not find immoderate infirmity successful the orders issued by the pre-trial enclosure of the territory tribunal connected November 29, 2024, terming the apprehension warrants issued by a Mumbai peculiar tribunal successful May 2018 and June 2021 arsenic "enforceable", allowing Choksi's extradition.
The Court of Appeals had ruled that Mr. Choksi, the main accused successful a ₹13,000 crore PNB scam, faces "no risk" of being denied a just proceedings oregon subjected to ill-treatment if helium is extradited to India.
Of the full scam amount, Mr. Choksi unsocial has siphoned disconnected ₹6,400 crore, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has alleged successful its chargesheet.
Mr. Choksi, who escaped to Antigua and Barbuda successful January 2018, days earlier the scam was detected, was spotted successful Belgium, wherever helium had purportedly sought treatment.
India sent an extradition petition to Belgium connected August 27, 2024, based connected apprehension warrants issued by the peculiar tribunal successful Mumbai.
The nationalist authoritative astatine the Court of First Instance successful Antwerp, Division Turnhout, initiated an enactment connected November 25, 2024, seeking the enforcement of apprehension warrants issued by the Mumbai court.
The pre-trial enclosure of the Antwerp District Court, Turnhout Division, successful its bid dated November 29, 2024, held that the apprehension warrants against Choksi issued by the Mumbai tribunal were enforceable, but for the bid related to "causing the disappearance of grounds of the crime".
When Mr. Choksi appealed against this verdict successful the Antwerp Court of Appeals, it rejected his claims that helium personally faces a real, contiguous and superior hazard of being subjected to flagrant denial of justice, torture oregon inhuman and degrading attraction successful India.
India has fixed a fig of assurances to Belgium astir Mr. Choksi's safety, the charges that helium would look during proceedings successful India, situation arrangements, quality rights and aesculapian needs.
The Court of Appeals had ruled that 66-year-old Mr. Choksi faces "no risk" of being denied a just proceedings oregon subjected to ill-treatment if helium is extradited to India.
Dismissing the entreaty filed by Mr. Choksi against the territory court, the Court of Appeals held that the businessman failed to supply "concretely plausible" grounds of a "genuine risk" of torture oregon denial of justice.
The bid was a beardown validation of India's lawsuit seeking his extradition, with Mr. Choksi having the enactment of appealing against the determination successful Belgium's Supreme Court, the officials said.
The Court of Appeals has held that the documents Mr. Choksi submitted bash not substantiate his claims that helium is the taxable of a governmental trial.
