<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">A Mumbai court refused to cancel a non-bailable warrant issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against fugitive diamond merchant Mehul Choksi, a key accused in the PNB scam. </span></p> <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Special judge for Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases VC Barde refused to give relief to Choksi yesterday. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Choksi's counsel pleaded that his client could not travel to India because of his ill-health and also because there was a threat to his life.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The court will now hear the ED's petition seeking to declare him a Fugitive Economic Offender under the newly enacted Fugitive Economic Offenders Act. The declaration will pave the way for confiscation of his properties.</span><br />''