Mumbai: Beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya is understood to have recently filed an application seeking political asylum in the UK, said top legal sources close to the development. His team of lawyers had been working on the asylum route as a last resort, if his appeal challenging the extradition proceedings were rejected, said legal sources in the UK.<\/p>\n
These sources further added that the request for asylum has already been sent to the office of UK home secretary Priti Patel. On May 14, the UK High court \u2014 which had ruled in April that Mallya could be extradited to India \u2014 declined to grant him leave to approach the Supreme Court. It\u2019s not clear if the asylum request was filed before or after that date. \u201cAt this point we can only confirm he has moved the UK home secretary\u2019s office seeking political asylum,\u201d said a legal expert privy to the development. Mallya did not respond to an email from ET. Emails sent to Patel and her office remained unanswered till press time Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mumbai: Beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya is understood to have recently filed an application seeking political asylum in the UK, said top legal sources close to the development. His team of lawyers had been working on the asylum route as a last resort, if his appeal challenging the extradition proceedings were rejected, said legal sources in the UK. These sources further added that the request for asylum has already been sent to the office of UK home secretary Priti Patel. On May 14, the UK High court \u2014 which had ruled in April that Mallya could be extradited to India \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}