Kingfisher baron Vijay Mallya denies charge he is an 'absconder'

REUTERS - Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who left the country as he faced pressure from banks to repay more than $1 billion owed by his collapsed airline, refuted charges he was an absconder and said he respected the law of the land.

"I did not flee from India and neither am I an absconder", Mallya said in a tweet posted on Friday. (http://bit.ly/227cxke)

Mallya also said that as a member of Parliament he would fully comply with the law.

The Kingfisher baron left India last week, a lawyer for the lenders told the country's top court on Thursday.

(Reporting by Shivam Srivastava in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Cooney)