(PTI)
Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi will file a third bail plea Wednesday before a UK court, which has already rejected his bail twice before as he fights his extradition case in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case amounting to up to USD 2 billion.
Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot is scheduled to hear the third bail application at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. It remains unconfirmed whether Modi will appear in person or via video link from Wandsworth prison in south-west London, where the 48-year-old has been lodged since his arrest in March. His barrister, Clare Montgomery, will seek to convince the judge of a change of circumstances in order to seek bail for a third time at the same court.
