Arun Jaitley hails Vijay Mallya extradition clearance, contrasts with how Opposition is rallying around 'Saradha scamsters'

Over the spectacular victory for India, where the UK Secretary of State, Sajid Javid signed the order to extradite fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya, Union Minister Arun Jaitley has hailed the win. 

While acknowledging Modi government for this win, in the same tweet Jaitley while comparing how the Opposition parties are rallying 'around the Saradha Scamsters'

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It was less than two months back that the Westminster Magistrates' court had ordered the extradition of Mallya to India, with Chief Magistrate Judge Emma Arbuthnot prima facie finding a case against Mallya for fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. The order had then gone to the UK Home office for approval. 

Mallya has 14 days from today to apply for leave to appeal.

Mallya's potential return to India would be a crowning achievement following India's recent successes in extraditing persons connected with various scams. Christian Michel, a middleman in the Agusta Westland scam had been extradited from Dubai in December, and just last week, another Agusta-accused Rajiv Saxena and aviation-lobbyist Deepak Talwar had been deported from the same place after their passports were cancelled.

Meanwhile, before the massive news, earlier in the day amid the ongoing political storm of 'CBI vs Mamata Banerjee' that has struck the city of Kolkata, the opposition parties across the country including Congress, Arvind Kejriwal's AAP,Akhilesh Yadav's SP, Tejashwi Yadav of RJD, Mehbooba Mufti's PDP and others have been supporting Mamata Banerjee in the standoff between CBI and Kolkata Police over the investigation attempts of Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in the Sarada scam.

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