Where on earth is Dominica? Thank Mehul Choksi for making everybody search

Dominica is just not a rustic that dominates India’s information headlines fairly often. But after fugitive Indian businessman Mehul Choksi was traced and ‘captured’ there on Wednesday, naam toh suna hoga.Wanted within the Rs 13,500-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case, Choksi allegedly entered Dominica ‘illegally’ and has now been detained. He had been staying in Antigua and Barbuda since January 2018 and lately disappeared from there.Speaking to India Today, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne mentioned, “We have asked the Dominican government to detain him for entering their country illegally, to make him persona non grata and have him deported directly to India.”All that is very effectively. But the place is Dominica? And what, then, is the Dominican Republic? Here are the solutions to all of your Choksi-inspired geography questions. (Source: Google Earth)WHERE IS DOMINICA?Dominica, an island nation, is positioned within the jap Caribbean Sea. It is part of the Windward Islands chain within the Lesser Antilles group of islands.To contextualise for cricket fans, the Lesser Antilles, along with the Greater Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago, make up the West Indies.Dominica lies between the French islands of Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante to the north and Martinique to the south. (Source: Google Earth)It is 47 kilometres lengthy and has a most breadth of 26 kilometres. As per the 2011 census, the nation’s complete inhabitants is just a bit over 70,000.Dominica’s capital and chief port is Roseau and the nation has been a member of the Commonwealth since 1978, when it attained independence.WHAT ABOUT THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC?Dominica and the Dominican Republic sound confusingly alike. And though each are positioned within the Caribbean Sea, they’re not the identical.The Dominican Republic, additionally a rustic of the West Indies, occupies the jap two-thirds of Hispaniola, the second greatest island within the Greater Antilles chain. The nationwide capital is Santo Domingo. (Source: Google Earth)To the nation’s south is the Caribbean Sea and to its north is the Atlantic Ocean. It is the second-largest nation within the Antilles by space at 48,671 sq. kilometers and it’s the third-largest by inhabitants. It has a inhabitants of roughly 10.77 million individuals.The Dominican Republic has the biggest economic system within the Caribbean and is probably the most visited vacation spot too. Choksi, clearly, is deviant on this regard too.AND ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA?Antigua and Barbuda, Choksi’s house for the final couple of years, can be an island nation within the West Indies. It lies within the Caribbean Sea and consists of two main islands Antigua and Barbuda – and different smaller ones.Antigua and Barbuda are in the midst of the Leeward Islands, which is a part of the Lesser Antilles. (Source: Google Earth)Its capital metropolis is St. John’s and the nation has a inhabitants of round 97,000 individuals.WHY IS MEHUL CHOKSI WANTED?Mehul Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are wished for allegedly siphoning Rs 13,500 crore of public cash from the state-run Punjab National Bank utilizing letters of enterprise.While Nirav Modi is in a London jail after being repeatedly denied bail and is contesting his extradition to India, Mehul Choksi took citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda in 2017 utilizing the Citizenship by Investment programme earlier than fleeing India within the first week of January 2018.The rip-off got here to mild subsequently.Both Modi and Choksi are at the moment going through a Central Bureau of Investigation probe.Mehul Choksi can be going through two circumstances in Antigua and Barbuda. One offers together with his extradition to India and the opposite considerations revocation of his citizenship.ALSO READ: Mehul Choksi reaching Dominica not voluntary, one thing fishy, says his lawyerALSO READ: India’s donation of Covid jabs to Dominica could assist carry again Mehul Choksi