Vijay Mallya, the beleaguered businessman who fled to London earlier this year, has appealed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure a “fair, impartial and legal” investigations by criminal agencies.

“Will our dynamic forward thinking corruption free PM care to guarantee that criminal agencies under his control are fair impartial and legal,” he tweeted.

“Our esteemed PM speaks about use of technology even for farmers. Wonder why enforcement agencies refuse use of technology,” Mallya tweeted earlier.

The liquor baron, who left India in March last year and is accused of owing Rs 9,000 crores to various banks, also tweeted, “In 2017 I would only hope that PM Modi Ji’s vision can be correctly fairly legally and impartially executed by his Government.”

Mallya owes over Rs 9,000 crore to lenders like SBI, PNB, IDBI Bank, BoB, Allahabad Bank, Federal Bank and Axis Bank among others.

This includes a little over Rs 6,000 crore in principal amount and the rest in accrued interests and penalties. Mallya had left the country on March 3 this year and is currently said to be in Britain.

In November 2016, CBI had initiated extradition request to bring him back from Britain through a special court in Mumbai.

The investigative agency secured a non-bailable warrant against Mallya, following it up with an extradition request from the special court to competent authorities in Britain.

By Economictimes.com