London: Wanted diamond merchant Nirav Modi on Tuesday renewed his appeal in the high court in London against being extradited to India to face charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated $2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case.
The 50-year-old jeweller, who remains behind bars at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London, had lost the first stage of the high court appeals process last week as a judge declined permission to appeal “on the papers”. Modi’s lawyers had five days to file a renewal application seeking an oral hearing to plead the case for permission to appeal against the extradition ordered by UK home secretary Priti Patel on April 16.
“A renewal hearing is listed for 21 July 2021,” a court official confirmed on Tuesday.
