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London: It has surfaced that the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (CCIF), which has supervisory, advisory and processing roles over INTERPOL – the international criminal police organisation – concluded as far back as October 12, 2022 that Mehul Choksi, the fugitive Indian jewellery magnate who is now a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda, was extra-judicially kidnapped in the Caribbean in May 2021 by the Narendra Modi government in a bid to rendition him to India.

In other words, the Modi dispensation allegedly attempted to bypass due process to forcibly bring him to India.

The CCIF’s determination was presented as evidence on December 18, 2025 by Choksi’s British barrister, Edward Fitzgerald, a King’s Counsel or senior advocate, in the form of a statement by the fugitive mega-jeweller’s Belgian lawyer, Simon Bekaert, to the High Court of England and Wales in London. This is a case in which Choksi has accused the Modi administration of kidnap and torture.

Bekaert stated that the CCIF concluded that “his (Choksi’s) abductors told him they were RAW (Research & Analysis Wing) agents, a telephone call with [one] Mr Narendra Singh while on the boat that was heading him to Dominica threatening him and his family if he did not voluntarily return to India (to face justice), the presence of the same investigator on-board the plane to Dominica to recover him, the link between Mr Gurdip Bath (a co-accused with the Indian government in the London case) and the Prime Ministers of India and of Antigua”.

The statement went on to say, “Consequently, it (CCIF) discerns that there is credible possibility that the Applicant’s abduction from Antigua to Dominica had the........

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