Jeweller to the stars ‘should be spared extradition to India’

A celebrity diamond dealer accused of swindling £1.5 billion from a bank should be spared extradition because the healthcare provided by Indian prisons is inadequate, a court heard. Nirav Modi, 49, fled after allegedly taking part in the country’s biggest ever fraud on the state-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB). India’s most wanted man was arrested on March 19 last year in Holborn, central London after a Metro bank employee identified him as a fugitive when he tried to open an…