Vijay Mallya’s challenge to India’s extradition request was turned down in the UK final year. (File)London: Fugitive billionaire Vijay Mallya has applied to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel for “another route” to be in a position to keep in the UK, the liquor tycoon’s barrister representing him in bankruptcy proceedings in the High Court of London confirmed in the course of a remote hearing on Friday.The 65-year-old businessman, whose legal challenge to the Indian government’s extradition request was turned down at the Supreme Court level in the UK final year, remains in Britain on bail till Ms Patel indicators off on the order for him to be extradited to India to face charges of fraud and revenue laundering associated to the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines.The UK Home Office has so far only confirmed on background that a confidential legal procedure remains ongoing ahead of the extradition order can be executed.This had raised widespread speculation that Vijay Mallya had sought asylum in the UK, particulars of which are neither confirmed nor denied by the Home Office in Britain although an application is pending.”The extradition was upheld but he (Vijay Mallya) is still here because as you know there is another route for him to apply to the Secretary of State for status,” stated Vijay Mallya’s barrister Philip Marshall, when particularly asked by Deputy Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Nigel Barnett about the status of the extradition proceedings.It is most likely that the reference is to an asylum route which, according to legal authorities, would rely upon whether or not Vijay Mallya applied for asylum prior to the extradition request or just after.”He would need to argue much stronger grounds. There are specific rules that detail when asylum is a bar to extradition, it is clear that claiming asylum after all appeals have been exhausted is unlikely to be considered a valid claim to asylum protection,” explains Toby Cadman, co-founder of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers and a UK-primarily based extradition specialist.The court on Friday also heard how Vijay Mallya, who submitted written proof for the hearing, was in a “constrained” position as a close relative had passed away as a outcome of COVID-19.The remote hearing in the industrial division of the High Court in London was to establish whether or not the court can sanction substantial sums towards Vijay Mallya’s living costs and legal costs from the sale of a French luxury home Le Grand Jardin final year.The revenue is held in the UK’s Court Funds Office (CFO) as component of bankruptcy proceedings brought by a consortium of Indian banks led by the State Bank of India (SBI) in pursuit of unpaid loans.Vijay Mallya’s legal group argues that he should really be sanctioned the needed funds to meet mounting legal charges in India and the UK, which involves charges to be paid to the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which argued the extradition proceedings on behalf of the Indian authorities.The lawyers for the banks have challenged this as it would dissipate the funds owed to his creditors towards speculative and “unreasonable” charges although other sources of funds stay accessible to the businessman.The hearing types component of a series as each sides make arguments for and against a bankruptcy order against Vijay Mallya in the UK.
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