Overview
- Justice Mansfield of the High Court’s King’s Bench Division issued the order on Friday, requiring security for costs before the claim proceeds.
- The judge said this was not a case with a high probability of success and noted a real risk that any costs order against Choksi could be unenforceable.
- Four defendants—Gurmit Singh, Gurjit Singh Bhandal, Leslie Farrow-Guy and Gurdip Bath—applied for the security, which the court set at £677,000.
- Choksi sued the Government of India and five UK residents in May 2024, alleging he was abducted from Antigua to Dominica in 2021 and seeking damages for physical and psychiatric injuries.
- The order, reported as roughly ₹8 crore in India, is a procedural step to protect defendants from unrecoverable legal expenses and does not decide the merits of the claims, which the Indian government denies.