Bussinessman Vijay Mallya outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London at the start of his three-day appeal against his extradition to India, in London.
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Business man Vijay Mallya leaves the high Court after winning the legal right to appeal against extradition to India to face fraud charges, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London...
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Giddy-Up
Mallya in a vintage with his steed fleet in the background during those salad days
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Hands Off
Vijay Mallya leaving Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Dec 10
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F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya arrives for a hearing for his extradition case at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Mallya, the United Breweries Group chairman and co-...
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The Door Closes
Vijay Mallya leaves the Westminster court in London on September 12
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Senior Congress leader PL Punia (R) speaks as party president Rahul Gandhi and senior leader Ashok Gehlot look on, during a press conference in New Delhi. Punia said on March 1, 20...
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F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya smokes a cigarette outside Westminster Magistrates Court during a break for lunch as he attends a hearing at the court in London. Mallya, once...
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F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya arrives to attend a hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Investigators have accused the 62-year-old of paying $200,000 to a Bri...
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Business tycoon Vijay Mallya arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court for his extradition hearing, in London. Investigators have accused the 62-year-old of paying $200,000 to a Br...
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F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya arrives for a hearing for his extradition case at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Mallya, the United Breweries Group chairman and co-...
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On His Mark, As Always
A fugitive from his own country, where he’s arraigned on money-laundering and unpaid loans charges...one would have thought all Vijay Mallya was doing was attending cou...
F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya smokes as he speaks to journalists as he leaves after a hearing for his extradition case at Westminster Magistrates Court, in London
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Congress activists burn effigies of Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya and Lalit Modi during a protest in Kolkata
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F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Mallya, the United Breweries Group chairman and co-owner of the Force India F1 team is wan...
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F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya smokes as he arrives for the third day of his extradition case at Westminster Magistrates Court in London.
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F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya arrives for the third day of his extradition case at Westminster Magistrates Court in London.
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F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya arrives for the second day of his extradition case at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Vijay Mallya is set to faces an extradition hea...
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F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya speaks to the media as he arrives for the first day of his court case facing extradition to India, at Westminster Magistrates Court in London....
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F1 Force India team boss Vijay Mallya leaves after attending a case management hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. He was arrested in April by the Metropolitan Poli...
On November 2, last year, the top court had asked the Centre to file a status report in six weeks on the confidential legal proceedings pending in the UK on extradition of Mallya to India.
Acting on a petition filed by a Pune based RTI activist, the Central Information Commission has asked CBI to cite rules under which it issued LOC to Vijay Mallya
The centre had informed the Supreme Court that it was unaware of the ongoing legal proceedings taking place against Mallya in the UK as the Indian government is not party to the process.
Sceptics and those close to the absconding businessman hope that he may beat the charges and come out unscathed from what has turned into one of the biggest political issues of recent times.
Hole-in-the-wall accountants, Tier-2 CA firms and the Big Four—all share a professional DNA of trickery. From there, it’s a tiny step to fraud. In the case of foreign firms, their very presence in India hinges on that.