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Choksi has to be brought back to recover looted money

It is hard to believe that Mehul Choksi, sensing arrest, could flee like that from Antigua and Barbuda to Dominica. With the efforts taken to deport Choksi having run into legal complications, it is very clear that certain powerful elements in the Caribbean are leaking information and helping Choksi. Our agencies have been mostly successful in getting fugitives deported, and I find no reason why Choksi cannot be brought back to India. But having said that, we should never send sleuths to a country without being sure of whether the convict can be brought back to India. Coming back empty-handed is embarrassing. The CBI and the ED should go all out to bring back Choksi to India to bring back the looted money from the banks.


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Local MLAs should listen to people and not their masters

R FERNANDES, Margao
Published Jul 3, 2021, 11:38 PM IST
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People have been constantly objecting to the last stretch of the Western Bypass to save their water bodies and fields. The people proposed a simple solution of building the bypass on stilts. Such projects are for whose benefits, if not the inhabitants? Local MLAs have been saying stilts are a costly affair. So, where does the money for these projects come from? The MLAs’ pockets? The MLAs just root for the whims of the Centre. Such projects are planned by people sitting in…

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