Vijay Mallya has hit again at these calling him a “bhagoda”, saying he’s legally prohibited from leaving the UK and accusing the Indian authorities of being “grossly unjust” in his case.
In a submit on X, Mallya mentioned he has been a everlasting resident of the UK since 1992 and claimed that his continued keep within the nation was not a matter of alternative.
“For all who say I’m a bhagoda refusing to come back to India, please remember that I’ve been a everlasting resident of the UK since 1992 and am at present legally prohibited from leaving this nation. All this began with poster boy actions by the Authorities of India who’ve been grossly unjust in my case,” Mallya mentioned.
Mallya’s feedback come amid his long-running authorized battle in India and the UK over his return to India, proceedings below the Fugitive Financial Offenders Act and restoration of dues.
What Vijay Mallya mentioned about UK restrictions
Mallya has beforehand made an identical argument earlier than the Bombay Excessive Court docket. In February 2026, he advised the court docket that he couldn’t specify when he would return to India as a result of English courts had barred him from leaving England and Wales or making use of for or possessing a global journey doc.
The Bombay Excessive Court docket had, nonetheless, advised Mallya that he wanted to return to India if he needed to pursue his problem to the Fugitive Financial Offenders Act, 2018. The court docket mentioned he couldn’t keep away from the jurisdiction of Indian courts and concurrently search aid from them.
Mallya is difficult the proceedings declaring him a fugitive financial offender in addition to facets of the FEO Act.
Mallya claims ₹14,131 crore recovered
In one other submit on Tuesday, Mallya cited an affidavit purportedly filed by the Enforcement Directorate earlier than the Bombay Excessive Court docket and claimed that it confirmed ₹14,131.60 crore had been recovered from him.
“Affidavit filed by the ED within the Hon’ble Bombay Excessive Court docket. Para 7 is the decreed debt and Para 17 reveals recovered ₹14,131.60 crore in 2021 !! 5 years on I’m nonetheless known as a fraud who cheated the Banks,” he mentioned.
Mallya additionally shared a desk which he described as a press release of account of the restoration.
“To all who imagine in truthful and correct accounting justice please see the next desk. Do I nonetheless deserve the best way I’m berated by the media and known as a fraudster on the very outset of a journalist’s script ? Why not begin asking when I’ll get my refund,” he mentioned.
He additional claimed that the ED had launched greater than ₹350 crore from his hooked up funds to pay Kingfisher workers.
“I couldn’t pay as a result of ED hooked up my property/funds,” Mallya mentioned.
In August, Mallya had equally claimed that banks and the federal government had recovered round ₹14,100 crore from him towards a judgment debt of ₹6,203 crore.
Mallya’s authorized case
Vijay Mallya left India in March 2016 amid mounting authorized stress over loans taken by his now-defunct Kingfisher Airways. The CBI had registered circumstances in reference to loans taken by Kingfisher Airways from a consortium of banks.
Proceedings had been subsequently initiated towards Mallya below the Fugitive Financial Offenders Act after it got here into drive in 2018.
The Indian authorities has additionally sought his extradition from the UK. The UK residence secretary permitted his extradition to India in February 2019, however Mallya challenged the order. The UK Excessive Court docket rejected his plea in February 2020 and later refused him depart to attraction to the UK Supreme Court docket.
The extradition course of has remained topic to additional authorized proceedings within the UK.
Authorities’s stand on return to India
The Centre has maintained that folks needed by Indian authorities should return and face the judicial course of.
In December final 12 months, Ministry of Exterior Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal mentioned the federal government remained dedicated to bringing financial offenders again to India, whereas acknowledging that a number of authorized processes had been concerned.
“We stay absolutely dedicated that people who find themselves fugitives and needed by regulation in India, return to the nation,” Jaiswal had mentioned, including that discussions had been underway with a number of governments and that there have been “a number of layers of legalities concerned”.