Mallya, 61, owes almost Rs 9,000 crore to Indian banks. The extradition hearing of the fugitive liquor baron was heard on 13 June in a London court. When a reporter asked about Mallya’s “billion pounds”, he mockingly told him, ‘’You can keep dreaming about a million pounds... you don’t know the facts”.

In a recent tweet-storm on Tuesday, on Goswami’s news television channel Republic’s official Twitter handle, Tweeple’s disbelief at Goswami’s statements on Vijay Mallya was almost palpable!