New Delhi: India's fugitive liquor businessman Vijay Mallya has suffered a major setback. The process of bringing Vijay Mallya, who lives in London, the capital of Britain, leaving the country, is getting dragged on due to legal complications. The Supreme Court of India is also hearing a case against him, but the shocking thing is that Vijay Mallya's lawyer has refused to fight his case. It has been said before the Supreme Court that there is no trace of fugitive liquor businessman Vijay Mallya. The condition is that they cannot even be talked to. In such a situation, his case cannot be fought.

Let us inform that India's fugitive liquor businessman Vijay Mallya is facing a case of loan fraud of thousands of crores from a consortium of about 17 banks led by the country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) in the Supreme Court. Advocate EC Agarwal is fighting Vijay Mallya's case in the Supreme Court in the bank loan fraud case. According to media reports, during the hearing in the Supreme Court recently, advocate EC Agrawal refused to fight Vijay Mallya's case.

Advocate EC Agarwal said before the bench of Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli that as per my knowledge Vijay Mallya is in UK, but he is not doing anything to me. I only have his e-mail address. He told the bench that we are not able to trace him through this e-mail. In such a situation, I should be discharged from the matter of producing him in the court.

The Supreme Court bench, while accepting the appeal of advocate EC Aggarwal, said that he should get Vijay Mallya's email id written in the court registry and also provide his address. The next hearing in this case will be held in January 2023. In early 2022, Vijay Mallya was sentenced to nearly four months in jail for contempt of court order by the Supreme Court. At that time the court had also directed the government to ensure that Vijay Mallya makes his presence felt in India. Despite the court order, Vijay Mallya did not bother to come to India.