Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith and Justice Robert Jay concluded that three days, expected in October, will be set aside for a substantial hearing to address a change in the “evidential landscape” in the extradition case involving the 51-year-old diamond merchant.
He is wanted in India to face charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to an estimated USD 2 billion in the
() loan scam case and had lodged an appeal last year against a lower court’s extradition order on mental health grounds.
“If even a significant proportion of this evidence is admissible, the evidential landscape has changed substantially since the District Judge’s decision (in favour of extradition),” said Lord Justice Stuart-Smith, with reference to the “massive material” presented as evidence in the case.
The court noted a “difference of opinion” between two psychiatrists who gave their expert opinion on Modi’s mental health and directed the barristers on both sides to facilitate a meeting between the experts to produce a “memorandum on matters on which they are agreed”.
Helen Malcom QC, appearing for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on behalf of the Indian authorities, referred to the case as a “many headed hydra”…
