Mallya loses passport for four weeks
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs, acting on the advice of the Enforcement Directorate, today suspended Vijay Mallya’s passport for four weeks.
Mallya has been given a week’s time to respond as to why his passport should not be impounded or revoked under Section 10 (3) (c) of the Passports Act, 1967.
A second-time Rajya Sabha member, he holds a diplomatic passport. The ministry stated that if Mallya, chairman of the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines, failed to respond within a week, his passport would be revoked.
Mallya is facing a probe on charges of money-laundering in a Rs 900-crore IDBI loan fraud case. He has failed to appear before the ED thrice. Kingfisher has defaulted on loans of Rs 7,000 crore. —TNS
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