The extradition hearing of Vijay Mallya continued at Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Friday as the judge said she would seek further clarification from India on certain documents, but described as “blindingly obvious” the prosecution’s contention about the bank not following its own rules when it came to lending decisions relating to Mr. Mallya.
‘No evidence’
The hearing continued to focus on the admissibility of evidence, following a hearing in January, with the defence barrister Clare Montgomery, attacking the structure of the prosecution’s case, which she said rested on police statements that didn’t have underlying material, documents with “no evidence of provenance,” and whose relevance one had to judge by inference from 161 witness statements, which rested on “expo facto” analysis that wouldn’t meet criteria of admissibility in a UK court.
