No laxity in steps to stop Mallya from fleeing: SBI
New Delhi, Sep 14: The State Bank of India (SBI), the lead lender to the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines, on Friday denied reports of any laxity in moving the court to stop industrialist Vijay Mallya from fleeing abroad.
The Congress said on Friday that a consortium of banks led by the SBI had met Supreme Court senior advocate Dushyant Dave on February 28, 2016, for advice in the Mallya case. On Thursday, Dave went on record that he advised the SBI management to move the Supreme Court the next day and get Mallya's passport confiscated.
"The SBI denies that there has been any laxity on its part or its officials in dealing with loan default cases, including Kingfisher Airlines. The bank has been taking proactive and strong measures to recover the defaulted amounts," the lead bank said in a statement.
Mallya, who has been facing legal proceedings for defaulting on loans of over Rs 9,000 crore, left the country on March 2, 2016, while 13 banks from the consortium moved the court four days later to seek its intervention to prevent the liquor baron from leaving the country.
The SBI, as the consortium leader of 17 banks, had moved the Debt Recovery Tribunal in Bengaluru in early March 2016 against the defaulting businessman and had sought impounding of his passport.
Mallya is currently in London where a court finished hearing on India's extradition case against him on Wednesday and is due to pronounce its verdict on December 10.
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RR beat RCB by six wickets in IPL
Guwahati (PTI): Blistering fifties by Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Dhruv Jurel powered Rajasthan Royals to a six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL match here on Friday.
Sent in to bat, RCB rode on a fighting half-century by skipper Rajat Patidar (63) to post 201 for 8.
Virat Kohli (32), Romario Shepherd (22) and Venkatesh Iyer (29) also chipped in with useful contributions.
In reply, Sooryavanshi (78 off 26 balls) and Dhruv Jurel (81 not out off 43 balls) shared a 37-ball 108-run partnership for the second wicket to set the platform. Krunal Pandya (2/30) tried to bring them back with back-to-back wickets.
But Jurel, in the company of Ravindra Jadeja (24), completed the task with another 68-run stand, with two overs to spare.
For RR, Jofra Archer (2/33), Ravi Bishnoi (2/32) and Brijesh Sharma (2/37) took two wickets.
Brief scores:
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 201 for 8 in 20 overs (Rajat Patidar 63; Jofra Archer 2/33, Ravi Bishnoi 2/32, Brijesh Sharma 2/37).
Rajasthan Royals: 202 for 4 in 18 overs (Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 78, Dhruv Jurel 80 not out; Krunal Pandya 2/30, Josh Hazlewood 2/44).
