{"id":306810,"date":"2018-12-10T07:33:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T07:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306810"},"modified":"2018-12-10T07:33:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T07:33:34","slug":"uk-court-to-decide-on-vijay-mallyas-extradition-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uk-court-to-decide-on-vijay-mallyas-extradition-today\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Court to decide on Vijay Mallya\u2019s extradition today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-302578 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mallya-v-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Mallya-v-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Mallya-v-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Mallya-v-416x420.jpg 416w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Mallya-v.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Westminster Magistrate\u2019s Court in the United Kingdom will give judgment in fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya\u2019s extradition to India on December 10. He is facing charges of financial irregularities running into thousands of crores and also facing money-laundering charges in the United Kingdom after India initiated extradition proceedings against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) both have filed several cases for alleged loan default against Mallya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A joint team of the CBI and ED led by CBI joint director A Sai Manohar left for the United Kingdom for the court proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mallya\u2019s twitter post reads, \u201cI did not borrow a single rupee. The borrower was Kingfisher Airlines. The money was lost due to a genuine and sad business failure. Being held as guarantor is not fraud.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mallya contested that the extradition case against him is \u201cpolitically motivated\u201d and the loans he has been accused of defrauding on were sought to keep his now-defunct airline afloat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When asked about the extradition case against him, Mallya reportedly said, \u201cPolitically motivated lack of fair trial and the ability of politicians to create numerous new allegations that provide for pretrial detention.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Westminster Magistrate\u2019s Court in the United Kingdom will give judgment in fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya\u2019s extradition to India on December 10. He is facing charges of financial irregularities running into thousands of crores and also facing money-laundering charges in the United Kingdom after India initiated extradition proceedings against him. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[435,2423,1783,2888,4965],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306811,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306810\/revisions\/306811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}