Vijay Mallya appeals to UK Home Secy for another route to stay in the UK

Fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya has appealed to the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel for “another route” to remain in the United Kingdom. Mallya’s legal representative made the claim during a hearing into the tycoon’s bankruptcy proceedings at the UK High Court in London on Friday.

Mallya, 65, has gone through and exhausted the full legal procedures available to him to fight the Indian government’s effort to extradite him to India to face charges of defrauding a consortium of banks of more than a billion dollars in relation to the collapse of Kingfisher Airlines NSE -11.11 % in 2013. He remains out on bail awaiting the UK Home Secretary Patel formally signing off on the extradition. The Home Office has previously said that the delay in signing off was due to a technicality.