Vijay Mallya’s plea for permission to move to Supreme Court rejected by UK High Court

Vijay Mallya, the high-flying owner Kingfisher Airlines, on Thursday, lost his leave to appeal his extradition to India in the UK Supreme Court, triggering a 28-day clock on his removal from the UK.

The extradition case regarding the alleged bank fraud of Rs 900 crore in IDBI Bank/ The liquor baron also faces probe in another case relating to alleged fraud amounting to more than Rs9, 000 crore in a consortium of banks led by State Bank of India.

Kumar was assigned the case against Mallya, notorious for his ostentatious lifestyle and who had made his way to the Indian Parliament as a Rajya Sabha member, as the DSP banking frauds and security cell, at Mumbai in October 2015. Kumar is now an additional superintendent of police in CBI, India’s premier investigation agency.