New Delhi: Prison lawyer Vijay Aggarwal, whose purchasers embrace fugitive financial offenders Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi, has been arrested in London on prices of sexual assault, the Metropolitian Police mentioned Thursday.
“On Tuesday, 11 August officers attended a property in Brick Road, Mayfair in reference to studies of sexual assaults on the tackle. A 57-year-old man and a 41-year-old girl had been arrested in reference to the incidents, that are reported to have occurred on Tuesday, 26 Could and Sunday, 9 August,” the Metropolitan Police instructed ThePrint.
Confirming Aggarwal because the 57-year-old man, the Metropolitan Police recognized the 41-year-old girl as Manpreet Kaur. Aggarwal, it mentioned, has been charged with “4 counts of sexual assault” and Kaur with “two counts of deliberately encouraging or aiding the fee of an both approach offence, specifically sexual assault”.
Moreover, Metropolitan Police additionally mentioned that two different people, a 23-year-old man and a 43-year-old girl, who had been additionally arrested Tuesday (11 August) in reference to the investigation have been “bailed pending additional enquiries”.
Referring to Aggarwal and Kaur, the Metropolitan Police mentioned each had been charged on 13 August, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket later that day and had been remanded in custody to seem at Southwark Crown Court docket on 10 September. “Two girls who reported the sexual assaults proceed to be supported by specialist officers,” it added.
ThePrint reached Vijay Aggarwal’s household for remark through textual content and telephone calls however had not obtained a response by the point of publication. This report can be up to date if and when a response is obtained.
Since 2000, Aggarwal has been actively concerned in felony litigation, representing purchasers in a large number of high-profile circumstances—from the 2G spectrum case to the ICICI-Videocon case, AgustaWestland case, Nationwide Herald case and the PNB fraud case, amongst others.
His space of apply is thought to be felony legislation, cash laundering (PMLA), financial offences, and extradition. Born in 1969 in Delhi, Aggarwal accomplished his BCom from Hansraj School, earlier than acquiring an LLB and securing ICWA (now CMA, Price and Administration Accounting) and FCA (Fellow Chartered Accountant) certifications.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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