Reportedly the supreme court has directed its registry to explain why the petition filed by businessman vijay Mallya, who has sought review of its 2017 order holding him guilty of contempt of court for transferring USD 40 million to his children, was not listed before the concerned court for last three years. Meanwhile a bench of Justices UU Lalit and ashok Bhushan, which took up vijay Mallya's review petition in-chamber on june 16, directed the top court registry to furnish all the details including names of officials who had dealt with the file concerning the review petition for last three years.
"According to the record, placed before us, the review petition was not listed before the court for last three years. Before we deal with the submissions raised in the review petition, we direct the registry to explain why the review petition was not listed before the concerned court for last three years," the bench said in its june 16 order which was uploaded on the supreme court website on Friday. Taking strong note of the undue delay in listing of the review petition, the bench asked the registry to furnish explanation within two weeks.
The banks had then alleged that vijay Mallya concealed the facts and diverted the money to his son siddharth Mallya and daughters Leanna Mallya and tanya Mallya in "flagrant violation" of the orders passed by the karnataka High Court. Prior to that, the supreme court had pulled up vijay Mallya for not making full disclosure of his overseas properties and had asked him to do so within a month. vijay Mallya had last month lost his application seeking leave to appeal his extradition to india in the UK supreme court, setting a 28-day clock on his removal from the UK.
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