The Enforcement Directorate on Friday issued fresh summons to businessman Vijay Mallya asking him to appear on April 2, acceding to his request to give him more time.
Mallya, who is in the United Kingdom, was earlier asked to face the investigating officer on Friday but he had expressed his inability to appear before him. The summons was issued in connection with a money laundering case filed on the basis of a CBI FIR on Rs 900 crore loan default involving IDBI Bank.
Sources said the ED's investigating officer had received through email Mallya’s request for a later date. The agency then decided to ask him to "join investigation in person" on April 2. Mallya, sources said, also cited a communication he claimed he made to some other agencies to buttress his point. The businessman had claimed in that correspondence that he would be out of India during March.
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