Brussels: Belgium’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, has again rejected Mehul Choksi’s latest challenge to the extradition order that would send him back to India in the massive Rs 13,000 crore PNB fraud case. The ruling followed an October 17 decision by the Antwerp Court of Appeal, which found the Indian arrest warrants “enforceable” and said that Mehul Choksi faced no real risk of an unfair trial or mistreatment in India. The latest development has further cleared the path for Choksi's extradition to India.

Notably, the 66-year-old head of the Gitanjali Group, Mehul Choksi, is accused of orchestrating a Rs 13,000‑crore fraud at Punjab National Bank, with investigators alleging that he alone siphoned off about Rs 6400 crore. He fled to Antigua in early 2018, was later spotted in

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