Vijay Mallya

A picture shared by Chris Gayle featuring himself and Mallya went viral and Indian Twitter users grabbed the opportunity to lash out at the fugitive,

Every time the call came, Mallya used to abuse and his blood pressure would go up. So, friendship and banking is not co-related, Puri stressed.

The 63-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss, wanted in India to face alleged fraud and money laundering charges amounting to Rs 9,000 crores.

A two-member bench of the Royal Courts of Justice comprising Justices George Leggatt and Andrew Popplewell made the conclusion after hearing the arguments.

The 63-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss has already lost a UK High Court 'leave to appeal' on paper, leading to an oral hearing of his renewal application this week.

The bank had sought possession of the 63-year-old businessman's plush Cornwall Terrace apartment over the non-payment of a 20.4-million pounds loan and a trial in the case was due last week.

Mallya and Talwar were reportedly “very close”.

The 63-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss is currently appealing against his extradition order from the UK to India to face charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to an alleged Rs 9,000 crores.

'My debts and the interest on such debts are mounting. I have assets to pay off these debts but the government won't allow the use of these assets to clear the debts. I have no control over my properties,' the businessman said.

Mallya is wanted in India on charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to an alleged Rs 9,000 crores.

The three businessmen mentioned by Gandhi, are wanted in India for fraud and money laundering.

The 63-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss failed in his first attempt at an application seeking "leave to appeal" in the court last Friday and had five business days to renew that application to seek a brief oral hearing before a High Court judge, where his lawyers will further plead his case against being extradited to India.

The 63-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss had filed the application in the High Court after UK home secretary Sajid Javid signed off on a Westminster Magistrates' Court order for his extradition to face the Indian courts back in February.

The 63-year-old had been sanctioned an 'ordinary living expenses allowance' of a maximum of 18,325.31 pounds a week, which he offered to cut down to around 29,500 pounds a month during a UK High Court hearing this week.

According to Mallya’s lawyer John Brisby, the liquor baron is an insolvent.

Mallya had last month approached the high court challenging a January 5 order of a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court declaring him a fugitive economic offender under the FEO Act.

In his characteristic style of issuing statements through social media, the 62-year-old asserted that by Modi's own assertion the recovery of assets was higher than the alleged Rs 9,000 crores he faces extradition to India on fraud and money laundering charges.

"Do we know which part of India he (Modi) is being sought in," the judge asked, to try and establish which jail Modi is likely to be held in.

The 48-year-old diamond merchant is wanted in India for alleged "high value and sophisticated" fraud and money laundering amounting to $2 billion.

Mallya is at present based in London and extradition proceedings are on to bring him to India as the ED and the CBI are probing parallel criminal cases against him for an alleged bank loan default of Rs 9,000 crore.