Vijay Mallya Gets Reprieve From UK High Court

London: The UK High Court on Tuesday allowed Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya, charged with fraud and money-laundering back home, to appeal against his extradition to India, local media reported.

Vijay Mallya, whose extradition order had been upheld by the Westminister Magistrates’ Court last year and his appeal against it rejected earlier this year, had moved the High Court in a last-ditch bid to stop against being sent to India. According to the reports, had his appeal failed, he would have been on his way back home shortly.

In the hearing on Tuesday, his lawyer Clare Montgomery argued that Vijay Mallya was being targeted on political considerations and had been “deliberately set up as a lightning rod of public anger at India’s bad debt”. It was unlikely he would get a fair trial in these circumstances, she added.

She also argued that Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot, who had cleared Mallya’s extradition last year, had made “very serious errors of fact and law”. (IANS)

Also Read: Vijay Mallya pleads against confiscating his properties