NEW DELHI: More trouble is in store for fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya as Delhi court has ordered attachment of liquor baron Vijay Mallya's properties in Bengaluru.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat issued fresh directions after the Bengaluru Police, through ED's special public prosecutor N K Matta and advocate Samvedna Verma, sought more time to execute its earlier in a case relating to FERA violations.
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 had not been able to attach any of them.
Mallya was declared a proclaimed offender by the court on January 4 last year for evading its summons in the case.
The court had on May 8 last year directed the attachment of Mallya's properties in the case through the Bengaluru Police commissioner and sought a report on it. It had also 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 despite repeated summonses.
The court 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.
(With PTI inputs)