Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who was believed to have absconded, came out today in a series of tweets criticizing the ‘media witch hunt’ that was launched against him.
Once a media witch hunt starts it escalates into a raging fire where truth and facts are burnt to ashes.
While there are overtly enthusiastic bids to nail Mallya through media trials, Mallya reminded the ‘‘media bosses’’ about the ‘‘helps’’, the ‘‘favors’’ and the ‘‘accommodations’’ that he had provided them in the past. In what can be perceived as an indirect threat to the media, Mallya also informed the ‘‘media bosses’’ that all of his favouritisms were documented.
Let media bosses not forget help, favours,accommodation that I have provided over several years which are documented. Now lies to gain TRP ? — Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) March 10, 2016
Mallya owes approximately Rs 9000 crores to various banks in India. He’d flown abroad on 2 March. Ironically, it was on the same day that the State Bank of India lodged a petition with the Debt Recovery Tribunal in Bengaluru to impound his passport.
Rubbishing media reports, Mallya further stated that he is not an absconder but an ‘‘international businessman’’ who frequents other countries.
I am an international businessman. I travel to and from India frequently. I did not flee from India and neither am I an absconder. Rubbish. — Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) March 10, 2016
Arnab Goswami, the editor in chief of news channel Times Now, who has been campaigning against him calling him a ‘‘wilful defaulter’’ also faced Mallya’s wrath. Mallya wants Goswami jailed for ‘‘libel’’, ‘‘deceit’’ and ‘‘slander’’.
The editor of Times Now needs to be in prison clothes and eat prison food for libel, deceit, slander and absolutely sensational lies.
If the report in The Times of India—which quoted a goverment official’s revelation that he flew to London from Delhi with ‘‘seven huge baggages’’—is to be believed, it doesn’t quite seem like a business trip. The Supreme Court has ordered to issue a notice to Mallya to return to India with his passport. Reportedly, the Indian High Commission in London will serve him the notice.
