London Eye: Nirav Modi loses, on this track

Nirav Modi has lost the first step of his appeal against his extradition confirmed by the magistrate's court earlier this year. But he hasn’t lost all the way through the appeal process yet, and if he does, he still has the asylum track left to switch to.

Nirav Modi’s written appeal to the High Court against the extradition order was rejected on Tuesday of this week. He would have five working days from then to make an application for an oral hearing.

In a similar move earlier, Vijay Mallya’s written appeal had been rejected. But he was allowed to make an oral appeal. It does not follow that Nirav Modi will be allowed to make an oral appeal but if he is, a date will then be set for a hearing to take place typically over a day, though in Mallya’s case it stretched over three days.