Vijay Mallya Extradition Case

The fugitive businessman will be accompanied by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials

The development comes in the wake of Mallya losing his appeal in the UK top court on May 14 against his extradition to India

Kumar is now an additional superintendent of police in the country's premier investigation agency

The leave to appeal to the Supreme Court is on a point of law of general public importance, which according to experts is a very high threshold that is not often met

Representatives from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), as well as the Indian High Commission in London, were present in court for the hearing.

The appeal hearing has been listed on 11 February 2020 with a time estimate of three days, a UK High Court official said.

Mallya, an alleged financial offender, is facing extradition case in London's Westminster Magistrates' Court on charges of bank fraud and money laundering amounting to around Rs 90 bn

The case had been left undecided over the issue of admissibility of evidence presented by the Indian authorities at a hearing earlier this month

The extradition case is expected to be one of the final hearings

Mallya will be back in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London for what is expected to be one of the final hearings

Vijay Mallya, who is undergoing an extradition trial in a UK court over Rs 9,000-crore fraud and money laundering charges, will face next year a parallel litigation brought by 13 Indian banks to freeze nearly USD 1.5 billion of his assets. According to court documents submitted at the UK High Court, the claim brought by the Indian banks against the 61- year-old embattled liquor baron will come up for a hearing in April next year. "The First Respondent's (Mallya) application to set aside the Freezing Injunction is to be set down for hearing on the first available date after 11 April 2018 with a time estimate of 2 days," states the court document. The litigation in the Queen's Bench Division of the commercial court in England's High Court of Justice lists the State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Corporation Bank, Federal Bank Ltd, IDBI Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Jammu & Kashmir Bank, Punjab & Sind Bank, Punjab National Bank, State Bank of Mysore, UCO Bank, United

The trial, which opened on December 4, is aimed at laying out a prima facie case of fraud against the embattled businessman

Mallya's barrister has said that the CBI has a long and inglorious history of being politically motivated in cases

The locals of the English village of Tewin, where the fugitive liquor baron currently resides, appear to have taken a shine to him

Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel was the first to be extradited from Britain to India in late 2016. He was wanted in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat.

Vijay Mallya has been in the UK since March 2016 and was arrested by the Scotland Yard on an extradition warrant on April 18

The Indian authorities have been asked to file a reply in the UK court in London to the affidavit before November 3

Mallya was re-arrested and granted bail thereafter till December 4

British magistrate presiding over Mallya extradition case says India's prison standards are not up to the mark

UK court rejected Mallya's request to shift the final hearing date to next year & fixed it for Dec 4