Why can’t Vijay Mallya come to India? After all the court had to be told ‘that’ reason

Mumbai. Vijay Mallya told the Bombay High Court on Wednesday that he can’t return to India proper now as the UK courts have barred him from leaving England and Wales or holding or making any worldwide journey doc. Mallya mentioned, ‘Due to the orders of the English courts, I can’t exit of England-Wales nor can I take any passport or journey doc. Therefore, I can’t inform the actual date when I’ll return to India. This assertion was filed in the High Court.

According to Hindustan Times report, Mallya is difficult some provisions of the Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEO) Act, 2018, underneath which he has been declared a fugitive financial offender. The court had earlier mentioned that his petition would be heard solely when he himself was current in India. In December 2025, the bench of Chief Justice Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhar had made it clear that Mallya could have to come to India. In his assertion, Mallya cited two outdated choices of the Supreme Court, the place the petitions of individuals declared absconding have been heard in his absence and in some circumstances the FIR and FEO proceedings have been additionally quashed.

He claimed that the important goal of the FEO Act was to get better the money owed of the banks, which has already been achieved on this case. Mallya says that the banks have acquired extra money from him, whereas the banks are nonetheless asking for extra money. On behalf of the Union Government, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh and Advocate Adarsh ​​Vyas mentioned that Mallya’s petition mustn’t be heard.
If they can’t come as a result of their passport is cancelled, the authorities can prepare journey paperwork for them. The court requested Mallya’s lawyer Amit Desai to file his assertion in the type of a proper affidavit and search a reply from the authorities. The subsequent listening to will be on March 11, when the court will give its verdict.

What are the expenses in opposition to him

Mallya is going through many circumstances of mortgage evasion, fraud, cash laundering and monetary irregularities in India. CBI had registered an FIR in 2015 in the mortgage rip-off of Kingfisher Airlines. In March 2016, amid authorized strain, he left India and went to Britain. The UK courts have accepted his extradition, however he stays there pending a ‘confidential authorized case’ (which is taken into account an software for political asylum).