Has Vijay Mallya entered the elite band of ‘gone boys’ like Quattrocchi, Anderson and Lalit Modi?
A leading news channel reported that Mallya was traced to his countryside estate near north London. Can the BJP-led NDA government bring Mallya back? The liquor baron may have permanently siphoned off an amount close to Rs 9000 crores from the pockets of Indian taxpayers.
Extraditing somebody from England isn’t an easy task. This is quite clear from former IPL chief Lalit Modi’s case. Modi had fled the country in April, 2010 after the Board of Cricket Council of India (BCCI) accused him of embezzlement.
Similarly, the then chairman of Union Carbide Warren Anderson and Bofors scandal prime accused Ottovio Quattrocchi too escaped the hands of justice. It is alleged that the Congress, under the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, orchestrated their ‘historic’ escapes. Ironically, Modi too escaped to England during UPA’s rule.
Anderson had fled the country after the disastrous gas-leak incident at Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal which killed nearly 3800 people. He died before he could be convicted. Quattrocchi too died before the Indian law enforcers could convict him.
