{"id":63639,"date":"2019-06-13T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T11:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=63639"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T11:42:26","slug":"uk-high-court-denies-bail-to-nirav-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/uk-high-court-denies-bail-to-nirav-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"UK High Court denies bail to Nirav Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK High Court on Wednesday denied bail to diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who is fighting his extradition from Britain to India in the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank fraud and money laundering case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Ingrid Simler at the Royal Courts of Justice said that there are substantial grounds to believe that Modi will fail to surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the judge felt that there could be interference with the witnesses and obstruction of justice.Earlier, Modi&#8217;s legal team presented arguments in an attempt to persuade the judge to overturn the Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court ruling to deny bail during three previous attempts, for fear that the 48-year-old would fail to surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modi has already been denied bail at three previous attempts at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court in London, as the judge ruled there was &#8220;substantial risk&#8221; that he would fail to surrender and deemed the bail security offered as insufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was arrested by uniformed Scotland Yard officers on an extradition warrant from a Metro Bank branch in central London on March 19 and has been in prison since. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK High Court on Wednesday denied bail to diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who is fighting his extradition from Britain to India in the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank fraud and money laundering case. Judge Ingrid Simler at the Royal Courts of Justice said that there are substantial grounds to believe that Modi [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63641,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63639\/revisions\/63641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}