The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court it is creating all efforts to extradite fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, who’s accused in a Rs 9,000-crore bank default case, but the UK government initially requirements to resolve a confidential “legal issue”, and therefore the delay in his extradition.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the bench led by Justice UU Lalit that the UK government has reassured the government that it is in search of to deal with the situation rapidly as it totally understands the significance of the case for India. However, the SG stated the UK government has refused to give more information, saying that it was judicial in nature.
“We are trying our best. Status remains the same. From political executive level to administrative level the matter is being looked into repeatedly at the highest level,” Mehta stated, adding that the situation was raised with the UK’s household secretary this month.
The next date for hearing in the case has been fixed on March 15.
The apex court had in November asked the government to submit a status report on extradition of Mallya inside six weeks.
Mallya has been primarily based in the UK considering that March 2016 and remains on bail on an extradition warrant executed 3 years ago by Scotland Yard on April 18, 2017. In May 2020, Mallya had lost his appeals in the UK Supreme Court against his extradition to India.
The SC bench is at present hearing the situation connected to the quantum of punishment following the conviction of Mallya, who was on May 10, 2017 identified guilty of contempt of court for transferring $40 million to his kids in spite of the court orders restraining him from undertaking so.
The revenue was portion of $75-million settlement with Diageo Group when he resigned from the chairmanship of United Breweries group in February 2016. Both the Karnataka High Court and the Debt Recovery Tribunal in Bengaluru had earlier asked him not to alienate his assets.
On August 31, 2020, Mallya was directed by the SC to seem ahead of it on October 5. This was following the dismissal of his overview plea of the 2017 verdict which held him guilty of contempt for transferring $40 million to his kids in violation of the court’s orders.