Vijay Mallya Out Of Legal Options, May Be Extradited Within A Month

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Vijay Mallya Out Of Legal Options, May Be Extradited Within A Month

Under the India-UK Extradition Treaty, the UK Home Office of minister Priti Patel is now expected to formally certify the court order for Vijay Mallya to be extradited to India within 28 days.

All IndiaReported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta RoyUpdated: May 14, 2020 06:30 pm IST

Vijay Mallya lost an appeal in Britain's High Court against the extradition last month.

 

 

 

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London/New Delhi: 

Business tycoon Vijay Mallya on Thursday was denied permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against a High Court order that upheld a 2018 ruling to extradite him to India to face fraud charges resulting from the collapse of his defunct company Kingfisher Airlines.

The decision ends his legal options to challenge his extradition. Under the India-UK Extradition Treaty, the UK Home Office of minister Priti Patel is now expected to formally certify the court order for Vijay Mallya to be extradited to India within 28 days.

Sources in the Indian investigative agencies have told NDTV that according to British law, the 28 day-period starts with immediate effect. "If everything goes per the schedule, Mallya would be in India in less than 30 days," an official said.

India wants to bring back the 64-year-old businessman, whose interests have ranged from aviation to liquor, over Rs 9,000 crore in loans Kingfisher took out from banks which the authorities argue he had no intention of repaying. Vijay Mallya denies the charges against him and is currently on bail.

Last month, he lost an appeal in Britain's High Court against the extradition. "The SDJ (senior district judge) was entitled to find that there was a prima facie case of fraud by false representation," the High Court said in its more than 23,000-word ruling.

Vijay Mallya, the co-owner of the Formula One motor racing team Force India which went into administration in 2018, was nicknamed "the King of Good Times" after the slogan of one of his premium beers and his hard-partying lifestyle.

His extradition would be a huge win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has faced pressure from political opponents to bring to justice several people who have fled India in recent years to escape prosecution, many for loan defaults.

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"UK Extradition Act permits appeal before Supreme Court only if there is a "significant point of law" to be settled... that too within 14 days period. Even if he chooses for an appeal, it's unlikely to be permitted as there is no significant point of law to be settled in this case. Mallya's extradition is confirmed and sealed," an official from Indian law enforcement agency told NDTV last month.

Vijay Mallya has repeatedly said that Indian banks can take back 100 per cent of the principal amount owed to them.

Earlier on Thursday, he tweeted:

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Congratulations to the Government for a Covid 19 relief package. They can print as much currency as they want BUT should a small contributor like me who offers 100% payback of State owned Bank loans be constantly ignored ? Please take my money unconditionally and close.

 

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Vijay Mallya's lawyer, Clare Montgomery, had argued that the 2018 extradition ruling by Judge Emma Arbuthnot had "multiple errors" because she did not take into account all the evidence about the financial status of Kingfisher Airlines.

In 2018, Judge Arbuthnot rejected Vijay Mallya's argument that the case was motivated by political considerations, that he would not receive a fair trial in India and that extradition would infringe his human rights.

In her judgement, she said that Indian banking officials might have been in "the thrall of this glamorous, flashy, famous, bejewelled, bodyguarded, ostensibly billionaire playboy who charmed and cajoled" them into ignoring their own rules and regulations.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/vijay-mallyas-request-to-appeal-in-uk-supreme-court-denied-british-government-to-decide-on-his-extradition-2228774?pfrom=home-topscroll

[tacobell fan]

Mallya Ji  will be safe due to Corona. He may get out of this emo anipistundhi.

[Pitta]

 

[mustang302]

Em heekaleru vaadidhi..🤣🤣

[Android_Halwa]

India ki vachina with in one week la bail mida bayataki vastadu...

Banks tho one time settlement chesukuntadu...will be washed pearl once again and the king of good times lives on..

[karthik25]

On 5/14/2020 at 10:51 AM, Android_Halwa said:

India ki vachina with in one week la bail mida bayataki vastadu...

Banks tho one time settlement chesukuntadu...will be washed pearl once again and the king of good times lives on..

ex-FM ne 100+ days jail lo vesaru.. 

But Mallya said that he was ready to pay off all his loans. Also, lot of his property auctioned. Nirmala thaayi once said.. these people have thier ecosystems here.. we want them to do their lawful businesses etc. So, that way if he pays back everything.. he may not get severe punishment

[mettastar]

Monna evo loans maafi chesaru ani chadiva .. veedivi include cheyaleda andulo

[dewarist]

mastu saarlu innam isonti muchatlu

[karthik25]

India in touch with UK over extradition of Vijay Mallya: MEA
 

New Delhi: 

India is in touch with the British government over the extradition of fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya after he exhausted legal options against New Delhi's request to the UK to extradite him.

"The government of India is in touch with the UK regarding the next steps in his extradition process," External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said on Thursday.

He was replying to a question on Vijay Mallya's extradition to India during an online media briefing.

Last week, he lost his appeals in the UK Supreme Court against his extradition to India to face money laundering and fraud charges.

The UK top court's decision marked a major setback to the 64-year-old businessman as it came weeks after he lost his High Court appeal in April against an extradition order to India.

Vijay Mallya has been based in the UK since March 2016 and remains on bail on an extradition warrant executed three years ago by Scotland Yard on April 18, 2017.

The High Court verdict in April upheld the 2018 ruling by Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot at the end of a year-long extradition trial in December 2018 that the former Kingfisher Airlines boss had a "case to answer" in the Indian courts.

[jefferson1]

BJP lo join aithe no jail time and free exit untundi....

[Silverado]

He is always non congress supporting bjp or jds in KA so no problem now

[vaakel_saab]

[Picheshwar]

58 minutes ago, jefferson1 said:

BJP lo join aithe no jail time and free exit untundi....

Nee kala neraverindi po 

51 minutes ago, Silverado said:

He is always non congress supporting bjp or jds in KA so no problem now

 

[Pitta]