Mehul Choksi will ‘only’ return to Dominica to face trial when fit, media reports citing bail conditions

Mehul Choksi’s trial for illegal entry before a magistrate has also been stayed

Diamantaire Mehul Choksi will “only” return to Dominica to face trial for illegal entry into that country when a doctor “certifies” that he is fit to stand trial, the media there reported citing conditions laid down by the Dominica High Court while granting him bail. In a major setback to Indian efforts to bring him from the Caribbean country, Dominica High Court Judge Bernie Stephenson allowed the businessman to return to Antigua and Barbuda, where he has been living as a citizen since 2018 after leaving India, to seek medical advice from neurologist Hayden Osborne at the Mount St. John’s Medical Centre, Dominica News Online reported. Mr. Choksi is having a clot in brain besides other health issues such as diabetes and hypertension, his legal team has submitted. The High Court also ordered that Mr. Choksi must intimate the court in the case of any change of specialist and his address in Antigua where he was going to stay.