‘Will do everything to bring back Vijay Mallya’

Last week, Britain had told India that it could not deport Mallya, who is facing money-laundering charges and owes  Rs 9,400-crore loans to banks back home, but could consider an extradition request for him.

“There are two separate procedures, one is deportation another is extradition. The UK in deportation has conventionally never been helpful. They always take a plea that once somebody has entered with legitimate travel documents, they don’t deport that person,” Jaitley said.

“Then, they expect you to go through the extradition process, which is as per the law. The requirement is once you file a charge-sheet in court, you start the extradition process and that the due process of law which taken forward. I think the agencies will make every endeavour under the options available,” he said.

India had on April 28 asked the UK authorities to deport Mallya, whose Indian passport was revoked to secure his presence for taking forward the investigation against him under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. A non-bailable warrant has also been issued against Mallya.

Mallya had left the country on March 2 using his diplomatic passport.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money-laundering case against him and others based on an FIR registered last year by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The agency is also investigating financial structure of Kingfisher Airlines and looking into any payment of kickbacks to secure loans.