<p class="title"> Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju today thanked the UK government for its cooperation in the ongoing extradition case of liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister, who is on a tour of Britain this week, held talks with the country's minister of state for security at the UK Home Office, Ben Wallace, on broad security issues.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"As part of the discussions, the minister thanked the UK government for all its cooperation in the Vijay Mallya extradition case," a senior official present at the meeting said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mallya is set to return to Westminster Magistrates' Court in London today for one the final hearings in the case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 62-year-old is wanted in India to stand trial on charges of fraud and money laundering allegedly amounting to around Rs 9,000 crores.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Judge Emma Arbuthnot is set to rule on the "admissibility" of some of the evidence presented by the Indian government in the case and is also expected to set a timetable for her verdict on whether the UK-based businessman can be extradited to India to face the allegations involving his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides the extradition case, issues such as the rise of fundamentalism and Sikh extremism were discussed during Rijiju's meeting with the UK minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The minister invited Wallace to visit India to continue discussions on security issues," the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The UK government has reportedly expressed an interest in learning from India's experiences on Islamist terrorism as a country with one of the largest Muslim populations in the world but the smallest number of radicalised elements in the Islamic State (ISIS).</p>
<p class="title"> Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju today thanked the UK government for its cooperation in the ongoing extradition case of liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister, who is on a tour of Britain this week, held talks with the country's minister of state for security at the UK Home Office, Ben Wallace, on broad security issues.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"As part of the discussions, the minister thanked the UK government for all its cooperation in the Vijay Mallya extradition case," a senior official present at the meeting said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mallya is set to return to Westminster Magistrates' Court in London today for one the final hearings in the case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 62-year-old is wanted in India to stand trial on charges of fraud and money laundering allegedly amounting to around Rs 9,000 crores.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Judge Emma Arbuthnot is set to rule on the "admissibility" of some of the evidence presented by the Indian government in the case and is also expected to set a timetable for her verdict on whether the UK-based businessman can be extradited to India to face the allegations involving his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides the extradition case, issues such as the rise of fundamentalism and Sikh extremism were discussed during Rijiju's meeting with the UK minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The minister invited Wallace to visit India to continue discussions on security issues," the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The UK government has reportedly expressed an interest in learning from India's experiences on Islamist terrorism as a country with one of the largest Muslim populations in the world but the smallest number of radicalised elements in the Islamic State (ISIS).</p>