Delhi court orders attachment of Vijay Mallya's properties in Bengaluru
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A Delhi court has ordered attachment of liquor baron Vijay Mallya's properties in Bengaluru in a case relating to FERA violations.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat issued fresh directions after the Bengaluru Police, through Enforcement Directorate's special public prosecutor N K Matta and advocate Samvedna Verma, sought more time to execute its earlier order in this regard.
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Attach properties by July 10: Court has directed Bengaluru police
The court directed the state police to attach the properties by July 10, the next date of hearing.
The Bengaluru Police had earlier informed the court that it had identified 159 properties belonging to Mallya but hadn't been able to attach any of them.
Mallya was declared a proclaimed offender by the court on January 4, 2018, for evading its summons in the case.
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Court had declared Mallya a proclaimed offender for evading summonses
The court had on May 8 last year directed the attachment of Mallya's properties in the case through the Bengaluru Police commissioner and also sought a report on it.
It had declared Mallya a proclaimed offender for evading summons in a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FERA) violation case after noting that he had failed to appear before the court despite repeated summonses.
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Mallya also fighting off extradition proceedings in London high court
The court had on April 12, 2017, issued an open-ended non-bailable warrant (NBW) against the liquor baron. Unlike a non-bailable warrant, an 'open-ended NBW' does not carry a time limit for execution. Mallya is also fighting off the extradition proceedings in London high court.