Lookout Notice issued against Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi: IT sources

February 28, 2018 23:17

On the request of Income Tax Department, a Lookout Notice/ Blue Corner Notice has been issued against Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi separately by the Bureau of Immigration, New Delhi in connection with multi-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case.

According to IT sources, the Lookout Notice/Blue Corner Notice would be valid for one year from the date of issue 22.02.2018 at all ports of embarkation.

The IT has further attached four more properties of Nirav Modi which includes a farmhouse at Mumbai's Alibag worth Rs 13 crore and 5.24 MW Solar Power Plant with 135 acres of land at Karjat, Ahmednagar worth Rs. 70 crore as per books.

Moreover, 34 more bank accounts of the Gitanjali group with the balance of Rs 1.45 Crore have been attached.

Meanwhile, Nirav Modi has refused to join Central Bureau of Investigation probe in connection with the PNB scam.

The CBI emailed Nirav Modi on his official id asking him to join investigations, however, in his reply the jeweller said that he will be unable to join the investigations owing to business abroad.

-- ANI

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