Vijay Mallya suffers another setback; Attachment of properties ordered by HC
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat directed the attachment through the Police Commissioner, Bengaluru, and sought a report by May 8 regarding the compliance of the order. The court was hearing an Enforcement Directorate (ED) plea seeking attachment of Mallya's properties. The court had on January 4 declared Vijay Mallya a proclaimed offender for evading summons in a FERA violation case after noting that he failed to appear before it despite repeated summonses
Mallya, who is reportedly in London, had submitted before the court on September 9 that he was "incapacitated" to travel despite "best intentions" as his passport had been revoked. Image source: PTI