A painful journey ahead from the cabin to the courts


On the run: Mallya, whose now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines owes more than Rs9,000 crore to various banks in India, made headlines on Tuesday after he was arrested by Scotland Yard on an extradition warrant by India.

UNITED Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz will soon have to battle it out in court over a lawsuit filed against the airline after it forcibly dragged a passenger out of its plane, and while the airline remains a subject of ridicule on social media, a flamboyant tycoon has joined the party.

Known as the “king of good times”, 61-year-old liquor baron Vijay Mallya, whose now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines owes more than Rs9,000 crore to various banks in India, made headlines on Tuesday after he was arrested by Scotland Yard on an extradition warrant by India.

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