After liquor baron Vijay Mallya was booed by visitors with shouts of "chor, chor" (thief) outside The Oval Stadium in London, where he was attending the India-South Africa Champions Trophy match, an ex-Kingfisher employee Neetu Shukla on Monday asserted she was glad to see this social boycott of the tycoon who was carrying out a pretense of being patriotic.
Mallya took to Twitter to tell the media to wait for the verdict as the Government of India has filed the case in the United Kingdom court.
"You can keep dreaming about a billion pounds; you cannot prove anything without facts", Mallya told reporters.
"I have nothing to say as the court proceedings are on and I deny all allegations that have been made and I will continue to deny them", Mallya said before appearing in the court.
Asked if he was relieved at being told by the court not to come for the next hearing on July 5, he said: "I do not want to say anything about what happened inside the court".
Mallya's next hearing will take place on July 6 with the full extradition hearing scheduled for December 4.
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"I am delighted that I can put forward my case before an impartial court", he said.
Mallya's defence team, which is being led by the firm Boutique Law LLP, said a second extradition request is expected from the Indian government.
Aaron Watkins, counsel representing India, admitted in the court he needs more time to provide further evidence to extradite Mallya, who is battling a slew of cases in India over his default case involving Rs 9,000 crore worth loans to a clutch of public sector banks.
Britain's Crown Prosecution Service argued the extradition case on India's behalf. Upon India's request Mallya was even arrested on an extraction warrant by London's Scotland Yard in April 2017, but later he got bail. Earlier, he had caused a stir by his attendance at the India vs Pakistan match in Birmingham after which he had declared on Twitter that he would be attending all India matches in the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy.
Mallya, accused of evading loans to the tune of more than Rs 6,000 crore, fled to the United Kingdom after six banks led by the SBI approached the Supreme Court against him.
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