Mehul Choksi is afraid of everybody. The diamond baron, who has been hiding abroad ever since the Rs 13,500 crore PNB scam came to light, said that returning to India could threaten his life. Mob lynchings, criminals in jail, police torture, and even his own employees scare him, said Choksi in an application filed on Monday before the court seeking cancellation of Non-bailable warrant (NBW) in the case filed by enforcement directorate (ED).

Everybody's after him
In the application, a copy of which is with mid-day, Choksi cited various reported cases of mob lynching in India. He said he fears employees whose salaries and dues have not been paid since his accounts got frozen, the families of detained employees who have been arrested without any rhyme or reason, the unpaid landlords whose premises his companies had taken on rent, the customers whose jewellery was taken away from his in showroom by the Enforcement Directorate, and finally, creditors who have not been paid their dues.