A Hyderabad court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya and chief financial officer A Raghunath.
The court has ordered police to produce the duo before it on April 13 while issuing the warrant. According to media reports, the order was given by the 14th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate GS Ramesh Kumar.
The warrants were issued after GMR Hyderabad International Airport filed a petition seeking Mallya’s prosecution for defaulting on payments and cheating the company by issuing cheques that bounced.
The court had earlier directed Mallya and the CFO to appear before it on March 10.
According to sources, Mallya left for London by the 9W122 Delhi-London Jet Airways flight at 12:54 pm on March 2 – days before a consortium of banks approached the Supreme Court for his passport to be impounded.
Meanwhile, Mallya – who is currently in the UK – tweeted on Sunday that all the efforts being put forth by media trying to reach him were useless, as he would not speak to them.
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