By: Sarwar Alam
There was “no ground at all” to believe that Vijay Mallya faces any risk in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail which has been recently “redecorated”, a UK court said on Monday (11), rejecting the liquor baron’s attempts to show Indian prisons in a bad light and ordered his extradition. Authorities at the prison have kept a high security cell ready for the 62-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss. The Westminster Magistrates’ Court Chief Magistrate Judge Emma Arbuthnot ordered Mallya’s extradition, in a major boost to India’s efforts to bring back the fugitive wanted for alleged fraud and money laundering charges amounting to…
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