The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that it is making all endeavours to extradite fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, accused of defaulting loans worth more than Rs 9000-Cr, from the UK, but the process is being delayed due to “some legal issues involved in the matter”.
After solicitor general Tushar Mehta sought some time to file a report on the status of extradition of Mallya, a bench of Justices U U Lalit and Ashok Bhushan posted the matter for further hearing on March 15.
At the outset, Mehta shared a letter of the Ministry of External Affairs’ official Devesh Uttam written to him on the status of extradition of Mallya from the UK.
The solicitor general stated that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has raised the issue of extradition with the UK government and the Centre is making all serious efforts to extradite Mallya.
He said that the government is trying its best but the status remains the same and from the political-executive level to the administrative level, the matter is being looked into repeatedly.
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