Summary:
Choksi, in his plea, stated that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has alleged that he left the country under suspicious circumstances in January 2018 and is avoiding investigation despite a summons. Choksi claims that while seeking to declare him a fugitive economic offender under the Act, the ED has considered statements of 19 people. He has sought for cross-examination of the witnesses, based on which the provisions of the Act were invoked. Choksi has filed another petition in an appeal against the trial court’s order rejecting his plea seeking cross-examination of ED officials, who submitted a report under the FEO Act against him. But when he left the country, the FIR in the case had not been filed against him..