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India hands over Mallya extradition request to Britain

New Delhi: India has handed over a request for the extradition of liquor baron Vijay Mallya to the British High Commission here, the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said. "We have today handed over the request for extradition of Vijay Mallya as received from the CBI to the UK High Commission in New Delhi. We have requested the UK side to extradite him to face trial in India," said Vikas Swarup, the official spokesperson of the ministry. Earlier, CBI had arrested a former chairman and four other ex-officials of IDBI Bank along with four former executives of Kingfisher airlines in connection with the Vijay Mallya loan default case. Sources said three more former executives of the airlines and three more former officials of IDBI Bank were also taken into custody. The arrests were made from multiple cities. While Raghunathan was arrested in Mumbai, Aggarwal was taken into custody from Gurgaon, the sources said. The arrests were followed by searches at 11 places including Vijay Mallya’s residence here, three floors of UB towers in Bengaluru, residences of Aggarwal and Raghunathan among others.
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