Nirav Modi defence witness Abhay Thipsay joins Bharat Jodo Yatra

Days after the UK High Court rejected Nirav Modi’s attraction in opposition to his extradition to India, retired Bombay High Court choose and Congress chief Abhay Thipsay, who was a defence witness of Modi, was seen at Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. Abhay Thipsay, who joined the Congress social gathering in 2018, appeared as a defence witness for Nirav Modi in a listening to in a UK courtroom in 2020.

On Friday, November 11, a Tweet in Hindi from Congress’ official Twitter deal with learn, “Today in #BharatJodoYatra @RahulGandhi ji met retired judges and lawyers and discussed their problems, the current situation in the country and the purpose of the visit. Together we have to get the country out of this difficult situation.”

आज #BharatJodoYatra में @RahulGandhi जी ने सेवानिवृत्त न्यायाधीशों एवं वकीलों से मुलाकात कर उनकी समस्याओं, देश के ताज़ा हालात एवं यात्रा के उद्देश्य पर चर्चा की।

हमें साथ मिलकर ही देश को इस मुश्किल परिस्थिति से बाहर निकालना है। pic.twitter.com/P8FIZLBZsy

— Congress (@INCIndia) November 11, 2022

Abhay Thipsay was seen in one of many images posted by the social gathering which confirmed him holding a microphone as if addressing the group, whereas one other confirmed him sitting within the entrance row.

Picture of retired Bombay High Court choose and Congress chief Abhay Thipsay at Bharat Jodo Yatra (supply: Congress Twitter deal with)

Picture of retired Bombay High Court choose and Congress chief Abhay Thipsay at Bharat Jodo Yatra (supply: Congress Twitter deal with)

Abhay Thipsay is a retired Bombay HC Judge who joined the Congress social gathering in 2018  after assembly the then Congress President Rahul Gandhi. He had joined Congress ‘to fight communal forces and communalism’. He later launched a guide blaming Hindus for bomb blasts finished by Islamic radicals. He was the identical choose who convicted 9 out of the 17 accused within the Best Bakery case. Justice Thipsay claimed that the Hindus carried out the 2008 Malegaon blasts.

Thipsay had confronted flak for granting bail to actor Salman Khan in a hit-and-run case after a decrease courtroom convicted him in 2015.

Congress member Abhay Thipsay appeared as an knowledgeable witness for Nirav Modi in UK Court

Thipsay had significantly been in information in 2020 after he appeared as a defence witness for fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi in a listening to in a UK courtroom in May of that 12 months. During the extradition proceedings, Abhay Thipsay, a retired choose turned Congress chief and an in depth confidante of Rahul Gandhi, had knowledgeable the London courtroom through video hyperlink that the fees levelled by Nirav Modi which embrace legal conspiracy, dishonest and dishonestly inducting supply of property, wouldn’t stand scrutiny below Indian regulation.

Thipsay, who testified through video hyperlink, claimed that a few of the police statements within the case in opposition to Nirav Modi in addition to the definition of deception shall be “inadmissible” below Indian regulation.

In his testimony, Abhay Thipsay had additionally claimed that there was no sufferer of the rip-off finished by Nirav Modi, due to this fact he’s not responsible. When the Indian govt’s counsel identified that Punjab National Bank was the sufferer because it has misplaced round $2 billion within the fraud, Thipsay had claimed {that a} company physique can’t be sufferer, and he had requested the govt. to determine individuals who have been deceived by Nirav Modi.

Since Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has at all times harped on the alleged proximity between Nirav Modi, the important thing accused within the PNB rip-off, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing the latter of aiding the offender, it was extraordinarily paradoxical that Abhay Thipsay, a retired choose turned Congress chief and Rahul Gandhi’s shut confidante, appeared to defend Nirav Modi.

UK Court had slammed Abhay Thipsay

While giving the go-ahead for the extradition of Nirav Modi to India, the UK courtroom had made scathing remarks in opposition to defence witness Abhay Thipsay for not revealing his political affiliation. The choose had mentioned, “I note he has never disclosed his party-political affiliation either in the report’s biography or in relation to this declaration as an expert and disclosure of any potential conflict of interests”. The courtroom had mentioned that it’s inevitable that he may have foreseen that his affiliation to the Congress social gathering could entice curiosity.

UK courtroom, which permitted extradition of Nirav Modi, is scathing in opposition to Congress social gathering’s Abhay Thipsay, former HC choose.

In giving testimony in favour of Nirav Modi, Thipsay “never disclosed his party-political affiliation” or “any potential conflict of interests”.

Wow. pic.twitter.com/AzqpusflF9

— Kartikeya Tanna (@KartikeyaTanna) February 25, 2021

Interestingly, after the previous choose’s testimony in help of Nirav Modi within the UK Court grew to become public and triggered an argument in India, he had requested the courtroom to make his testimony ‘private’.

BJP attacked the retired Bombay HC choose and Congress members for showing as witnesses for fugitive financial offender Nirav Modi

After Thipsay appeared to defend fugitive Nirav Modi within the UK courtroom, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad known as a press convention and mounted an assault in opposition to the Congress chief. “There is overpowering suspicious circumstances from which we can infer that the Congress is trying its best to save and bail out Nirav Modi,” Ravi Shankar Prasad sharply famous in a press convention in May whereas accusing Thipsay of working on the behest of Congress to save lots of Nirav Modi.

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra had additionally Tweeted asking “what was the deal between Rahul and Nirav?”. Patra Tweeted, “Here in India, Rahul Gandhi questions the government over Nirav Modi … On the other hand, Rahul’s special and Congress’s Abhay Thipsay (former judge) witness in favour of Nirav Modi. After all, what is it that Rahul does not want Nirav to come to India? What was the deal between Rahul and Nirav at the party that night?” Patra seemed to be referring to a celebration attended by Nirav Modi and Rahul in Delhi in 2013.

यहाँ भारत में राहुल गाँधी नीरव मोदी को ले,सरकार से सवाल पूछते है ..
दूसरी तरफ़ राहुल के ख़ास एवं Congress के Abhay Tipsay (पूर्व choose) नीरव मोदी के पक्ष में गवाह बनते है
आख़िर ऐसा क्या है जो राहुल नहीं चाहते नीरव भारत आए?
उस रात पार्टी में राहुल और नीरव में क्या लेन देन हुई थी? pic.twitter.com/jrHDeDP6B2

— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) May 14, 2020

However, regardless of the determined makes an attempt of Congress member Abhay Thipsay to defend the scamster Nirav Modi, on November 9, 2022, the UK High Court ordered the extradition of fugitive Nirav Modi to India. The High Court rejected diamond seller Nirav Modi’s attraction in opposition to his extradition, clearing the route for his return to India. The verdict was delivered by a bench consisting of Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith and Justice Robert Jay. Nirav Modi is needed in India for the $2 billion mortgage scandal at Punjab National Bank (PNB).