Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Nirav Modi

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with his possible travels to Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Belarus, Brussels, New York, UAE among others, the sources said.

The CBI had tried to track the movements of Nirav Modi through a diffusion notice issued through the Interpol on February 15, but it had limited success as only the UK responded to the CBI request, they said.

Nirav Modi managed to travel across several countries even after informatio­n about his passport being revoked by the Indian government was flashed in the Interpol central database on February 24, the CBI had earlier said.

“After the passport was revoked/cancelled by the External Affairs Ministry, we had updated this informatio­n in the diffusion notice. The informatio­n that Nirav Modi’s passport has been revoked was provided in the Interpol central database, available to all the member countries, on February 24,” CBI spokespers­on Abhishek Dayal had said.

He had said that after the “diffusion” notice was issued by the Interpol on the request of the CBI, the agency followed it up with six countries where Nirav Modi was suspected to have fled. The agency requested these countries to share informatio­n about his whereabout­s and movements.

The agency sent these reminders to the Interpol coordinati­on agency of the United Kingdom on April 25, May 22, 24 and 28.

Similar reminders were also sent to the agencies of the US, Singapore, Belgium, the UAE and France, they said.

The case pertains to cheating the state-run Punjab National Bank through fraudulent issuance of Letters of Undertakin­g and Foreign Letters of Credit of over ₹2 billion (about ₹13,000 crore) by Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, both absconding since the first week of January. ond language and availabili­ty of Urdu teacher in such schools.

“Education should remain secular. This is important. So I welcome the suggestion­s of introducin­g more Urdu medium schools; teachers and at the same time students should learn about all religions. Though I welcome the suggestion­s, what is more important is implementa­tion,” said Masoom Moradabadi, a member of the Delhi Minorities Commission’s Advisory Committee.

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