LONDON: Liquor baron
Vijay Mallya
‘s application for authorization to appeal his extradition to India in the UK Supreme Court was turned down on Thursday, leaving the 64- year-old flamboyant business person with simply one escape path from imprisonment in an Indian prison: the European Court of Human Being Rights.
At 10.30 am on Thursday, whilst Mallya’s attorneys were busy representing
Nirav Modi
at his extradition hearing, Lord Justice Irwin and Justice
Elizabeth Laing
, the high court judges who had actually dismissed Mallya’s appeal versus extradition on April 20, 2020, ruled there was no point of law of general public importance associated with their decision. This meant the UK Supreme Court might have no jurisdiction over his case.
Mallya, when a glamorous fixture on India’s celebration scene, last choice is to acquire an emergency situation in