The legal battleThe case centres on a September 2025 article which claimed Ms Handa fled India to evade arrest on fraud charges before illegally acquiring a Ghanaian passport. While Ms Handa has previously attributed such discrepancies to clerical errors, lawyers for the defendants argue the pattern suggests "deliberate misrepresentations." Fugitive claimsThe court has also received filings with details of rulings from the New Delhi High Court, whose 2019 decision described Ms Handa as a "fraud mastermind" who had absconded to avoid arrest. This appears, according to defense lawyers, conflict with her statements to the Ghanaian court that she was "never a fugitive." The New Delhi court reportedly questioned the authenticity of those medical records at the time, calling a claim that she required three years of "bed rest" inherently improbable.

Source: GhanaWeb April 10, 2026 13:12 UTC