PNB scam: HC seeks report from JJ doctors on Mehul Choksi's health

The Bombay High Court on Monday sought a sealed report from an expert team of doctors at the staterun JJ Hospital on the medical condition of diamantaire Mehul Choksi and if he was in a position to travelMehul Choksi accused of money laundering by the Enforcement Directorate in the multicrore Punjab National Bank scam is currently in Antigua and has informed the high court that he is unable to travel to India due to ill healthThe bench on Monday directed Choksirsquos advocate to submit all of his clientrsquos latest medical reports to the team of doctors at the JJ Hospitalrsquos cardiology departmentThe hospital shall on July 9 submit the sealed report to the court with its opinion on whether Choksi can travel the bench said The court will hear the plea on July 10Choksi has claimed that he left India in January 2018 to undergo a bypass surgery and not to avoid prosecutionIn an affidavit filed in the HC he said he would return to India if he is medically fitInputs from AgenciesTop news stories of the daySex toys worth Rs 8 crore confiscated in two years in MumbaiIn the worlds second populous nation the obsession with sex toys shouldnt come as a surprise What however does is the massive quantity of it being illegally brought into the country The toys are regularly detained by the Customs Department A Right To Information query filed by activist Prithviraj Maske revealed that from 2017 to January 2019 the Airport Special Courier Cell of the Mumbai Customs Department had seized sex toys worth Rs 8 crore Read full storyMurder Mystery Solved 3D face helps cops crack caseThe forensic department of the KEM Hospital has helped the Navghar police crack a twomonthold murder case with the help of facial reconstruction and 3D superimposition technology which they used to put a face on the victims severely fractured skull Yogesh Rane a worker at a tea stall in Mulund had in March smashed the face of his colleague Vijay Kishor and burnt his upper body for laughing at him at the gym He was caught after he attempted to kill another coworker when the latter started asking him questions about Kishors sudden disappearance Read full storyMumbai Corporators oppose parking fines say additionl infra requiredThe Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations BMC decision to tackle the citys illegal parking menace has fallen flat with corporators opposing the move of charging hefty fines without providing the required infrastructure or additional parking space to citizens Not only members of the ruling coalition even the Opposition opposed the move at the civic bodys general body meeting on Monday Read full storyMumbais top cop pedals to 1500 km cycling historyIndian Police Service IPS Krishna Prakash special inspector general of police IGP administration Maharashtra is back home in Mumbai after creating cycling history The tough cop has finished a stupendous fourth in the mens open category of the Race Across West RAW in USA The race which requires cycling for approximately 1500 km across four American states started on June 11 and ended on June 14 Read full storyBandra court asks police to probe case of school that blamed child for bad touchThe Bandra Court has directed the Santacruz police to register an offence against a reputed school in Vile Parle after a petitioner parent alleged mental harassment of her child by it Last year the eightyearold child was reprimanded for inappropriately touching his classmates by the school The parents later complained that the way the school treated the child thereon was harassment Read full storyCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates