'Committed to bring back fugitives': MEA on Lalit Modi, Mallya; reaction after viral video

NEW DELHI: Reacting to a video that surfaced showing fugitives Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya astatine a enactment successful London, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) connected Friday reiterated that India remains firmly committed to bringing backmost individuals wanted by instrumentality to look justness successful the country.Also Read | Lalit Modi hosts day bash for Vijay Mallya's 70th birthday“We stay afloat committed that radical who are fugitive and are wanted by instrumentality successful India, they instrumentality to the country. For this peculiar return, we are successful talks with respective governments, and processes are on,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters astatine a play briefing successful New Delhi.

He added that determination were respective ineligible processes involved, but reiterated the government’s committedness to ensuring the instrumentality of specified individuals to India."As you know, successful respective of these cases, respective layers of legalities are involved. But we stay committed to bring them backmost to the state truthful they tin look trials earlier the tribunal here," Jaiswal said.The MEA’s remarks travel days aft Lalit Modi shared a video connected Instagram from Mallya’s 70th day celebrations, successful which helium referred to himself and his chap fugitive arsenic the “two biggest fugitives from India.”“Let maine bash thing to interruption the net again. Happy day my person #VijayMallya.

Love u,” helium wrote successful the caption.Modi hosted the solemnisation astatine his upscale six-bedroom residence successful London’s Belgrave Square, among the astir costly neighbourhoods successful the UK. Several of Mallya’s associates travelled from India to be the party.Mallya, who turned 70 connected December 18, is the erstwhile proprietor of the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines and antecedently owned the Bengaluru franchise successful the Indian Premier League (IPL). He near India for the UK successful 2016 aft aggregate cases were filed against him implicit alleged fiscal irregularities and indebtedness defaults involving thousands of crores of rupees.Modi, a erstwhile cricket head and the laminitis of the IPL, near India successful 2010 aft investigations were launched into alleged fiscal misconduct and irregularities during the league’s aboriginal years.