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India connected Friday (December 26, 2025) said it is committed to bring backmost from overseas the economical fugitives including Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya to look the instrumentality successful the country.
The assertion by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) came days aft Lalit Modi, successful a video posted connected societal media, joked astir his and Mallya's presumption arsenic the "two biggest fugitives" of India.
"We are the 2 fugitives, the biggest fugitives of India," helium was heard saying.
The video from a enactment for Mallya's 70th day successful London was removed later.
In the caption, Lalit Modi appeared to beryllium sarcastic arsenic helium wrote: "Let's interruption the net down successful India again.”
Asked astir the present deleted video, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the authorities is afloat committed to bring backmost the radical wanted by instrumentality successful India.
"We stay afloat committed that radical who are fugitives, who are wanted by instrumentality successful India, instrumentality to the country. For this peculiar issue, we are successful talks with respective governments," helium said astatine his play media briefing.
"Processes are on. In respective of these cases, determination are respective layers of legalities involved. But we stay committed to bring them backmost to the state truthful that they tin look trials earlier courts here," helium said.
Mallya, who fled to the United Kingdom successful March 2016, is wanted successful India implicit a default of ₹9,000 crore that was loaned to Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) by respective banks.
Lalit Modi is besides wanted by Indian probe agencies for his alleged engagement successful wealth laundering and violating the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA).
