{"id":308962,"date":"2019-02-04T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308962"},"modified":"2019-02-04T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:10:29","slug":"uk-home-secretary-sajid-javid-approves-vijay-mallyas-extradition-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uk-home-secretary-sajid-javid-approves-vijay-mallyas-extradition-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid approves Vijay Mallya\u2019s extradition to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/made-comprehensive-settlement-offer-to-karnataka-high-court-vijay-mallya\/mallya-v\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302578\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302578 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mallya-v-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Mallya-v-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Mallya-v-416x420.jpg 416w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Mallya-v.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a>United Kingdom (UK) Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Monday approved the extradition of fugitive economic offender Vijay Mallya to India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The move comes after a Westminster Magistrate Court of the UK had on December 10 ordered Vijay Mallya\u2019s extradition to India to face fraud investigations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mallya, who is currently in the UK, is wanted in India for alleged fraud and money laundering charges amounting to an estimated Rs 9,000 crore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The anti-corruption court in Mumbai on January 5 had tagged Vijay Mallya as \u2018fugitive economic offender\u2019 under a new anti-fraud law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mallya became the first businessman to be charged under Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mallya now has 14 days to appeal against the decision.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Kingdom (UK) Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Monday approved the extradition of fugitive economic offender Vijay Mallya to India. The move comes after a Westminster Magistrate Court of the UK had on December 10 ordered Vijay Mallya\u2019s extradition to India to face fraud investigations. Mallya, who is currently in the UK, is wanted in [&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":[5607,1783,2190,2888],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308962"}],"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=308962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308963,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308962\/revisions\/308963"}],"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=308962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}