‘King of good times’ receives court summons for not paying pilot dues

Kingfisher Airlines Chairman-cum-Managing Director Vijay Mallya has been summoned by a court here on a pilot’s petition alleging that the company was withholding his payment dues. Finding Mallya “prima-facie” guilty of fraud and criminal breach of trust (under section 420 and 406 of IPC), Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Umakant Jindal has summoned him along with company Vice Chairman Roopi Arya. The court’s order came in the wake of a complaint filed by a co-pilot of the airline contending that the accused were not paying his dues amounting to over Rs 28 lakh notwithstanding a written assurance by Arya.