'Exploitation is in your blood': Kingfisher women staff to Mallya

Women employees of Kingfisher Airlines have written an open letter to embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, saying exploitation is in his blood and that is why he talked about one time settlement with banks and not with the employees.

"Because we are weak and vulnerable due to our system? Coincidentally today being' "women's day" we feel pained that our colleague's wife who committed suicide didn't get justice. (Delhi police didn't even register F.I.R. against you)," the letter said.

In an open letter, on International Women's Day, the women employees accused Mallya of placing legal hurdles in the path of recovery by the banks.

"You evaded the recovery process then what are you other than absconder? Due to our curse you are facing humiliation daily," it said.

"You not only killed Air Deccan (which Ambanis would have,otherwise,taken over) but also our mother Kingfisher Airlines which was feeding us. You should have gracefully exited like Capt. Gopinath did when he was not able to manage the airline," the letter further said.

"You say that you are not a defaulter. But you confidently told us during the meeting that banks won't be able to recover more than 5-10 per cent of debt amount. That speaks volumes of your malicious intentions. In the same meeting, you promised revival, payment of our salary... This clearly means that you had no intention of reviving the airline while you kept submitting misleading revival plans to banks/DGCA," the women staffers alleged in the letter.

The women in the letter also said that they would appeal Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take very serious view and remove Mallya from the committee of Rajya Sabha.

"You are indifferent to us but we feel pity on you for what you have done to yourself and your empire. We don't feel happy to insult you but our contention is that why you kept us in dark. You should have immediately paid us when the first life was lost but instead, you used us as human shield to prolong your legal battle," it added.

A consortium of PSU banks have moved Supreme Court seeking a direction that Mallya not be allowed to leave India. The apex court has agreed to hear their plea tomorrow.

A Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) had yesterday barred Mallya from accessing $75 million severance package from Diageo till the loan default case with State Bank of India is settled.