{"id":5742,"date":"2026-07-27T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:30:12","slug":"nirav-modi-india-refused-to-take-illegal-migrants-back-as-uk-didnt-extradite-nirav-modi-claims-former-uk-home-secretary-priti-patel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=5742","title":{"rendered":"Nirav Modi: India refused to take illegal migrants back as UK didn\u2019t extradite Nirav Modi, claims former UK home secretary Priti Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132670029,imgsize-682573,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/priti-patel-on-nirav-modi.jpg\" alt=\"India refused to take illegal migrants back as UK didn\u2019t extradite Nirav Modi, claims former UK home secretary Priti Patel\" title=\"File photo: Former UK home secretary Priti Patel and fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"File photo: Former UK home secretary Priti Patel and fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi\">File photo: Former UK home secretary Priti Patel and fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>LONDON: Former UK home secretary Priti Patel says the Indian government has refused to take back thousands of illegal Indian migrants from Britain because the UK has not extradited fugitive jeweller <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/nirav-modi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nirav Modi<\/a>.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Patel, a Tory, held the position from 2019 to 2022. Her comments come in the fourth episode of the Diamond King podcast, a new four-part series on Nirav\u2019s rise and fall due for release on Friday. It is made by Daily Telegraph reporters Rob Mendick and Mick Brown, who found Nirav openly living in London in 2019.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Patel, who signed off on Nirav\u2019s extradition in 2021, told the podcast she was horrified that Nirav was still in London seven years later. <!-- -->She said India was \u201chugely angry\u201d over Britain\u2019s failure to deport him and that the government in Delhi had \u201creally pushed back\u201d on taking back Indians in Britain who had overstayed.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Patel said the UK was home to \u201ca very high number\u201d of illegal Indian immigrants. \u201cI had a hell of a challenge getting India to sign off on receiving failed asylum-seekers and I\u2019m convinced it\u2019s because we had a high profile case of Nirav,\u201d she said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>She claims Delhi declined to receive charter flights of illegal immigrants and \u201chad problems verifying\u201d the names provided by the UK. \u201cNirav should be in prison in India serving his time there,\u201d she said. Nirav, who is alleged to have spent over \u00a31 million in legal fees opposing extradition, remains in Pentonville prison in London. There were rumours earlier this month that he had lost his bid at the ECHR to prevent extradition.<!-- --> But he has not gone back. The ECHR and home office refused to comment and Nirav\u2019s barrister, Edward Fitzgerald KC, told TOI: \u201cWe fight on whatever happens.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>The number of illegal Indian migrants in the UK is unknown. A figure of 100,000 was bandied around in 2018 but Indian officials disputed this at the time.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>Britain and India signed a migration and mobility MoU in May 2021 which assures the return to each other\u2019s country of any illegal residents in the other country.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>\u201cThis is not true. India is taking back illegal migrants. India has never opposed that,\u201d said Kuldeep Shekhawat, in charge of Overseas Friends of BJP UK and Europe. \u201cIndia does not support illegal migration in any part of the world.\u201d<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/uk\/india-refused-to-take-illegal-migrants-back-as-uk-didnt-extradite-nirav-modi-claims-former-uk-home-secretary-priti-patel\/articleshow\/132669734.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo: Former UK home secretary Priti Patel and fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi LONDON: Former UK home secretary Priti Patel says the Indian government has refused to take back thousands of illegal Indian migrants from Britain because the UK has not extradited fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi.Patel, a Tory, held the position from 2019 to 2022. 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