Indian PM met Ms. May during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit and sought UK’s help in extradition of Vijay Mallya and other economic offenders.

As India works to seek return of fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday pressed upon his British counterpart Theresa May to request UK’s cooperation in bringing back economic offenders.

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Mr. Mallya has been in the UK for months, escaping arrest warrants, while a court in London is hearing a case regarding his return to India.

Mr. Modi met Ms. May during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit and sought UK’s help in this regard.

Both leaders also talked about the complete range of India-UK ties.

In a tweet after the meeting, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Gopal Baglay said the Prime Minister asked for UK’s “cooperation for return of escaped Indian economic offenders“.

In Hamburg, Prime Ministers @narendramodi and @theresa_may met and held talks on the complete range of India-UK ties. pic.twitter.com/r6i7KTdhtU — PMO India (@PMOIndia) July 8, 2017

Mr. Mallya, who is wanted in India for Kingfisher Airlines’ default on loans worth nearly ₹9,000 crore, has been in the UK since March 2016.

In April, he had was arrested at a central London police station and was released on conditional bail a few hours later after providing bond worth 650,000 pounds and assuring the court of abiding by all conditions associated with extradition proceedings, such as the surrender of his passport and a ban on him possessing any travel documents.

India and the UK have an Extradition Treaty, signed in 1992, but so far only one extradition has taken place under the arrangement — Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel, who was sent back to India last October to face trial in connection with his involvement in the post-Godhra riots of 2002.