"The provision is stipulated under Section 4 (2)(a) of the Passport Act which talks about issuance of an emergency certificate authorising a person to enter India. Mallya can well use this legal provision to come back to India and join the probe. He is wanted in a criminal probe of money laundering by the ED apart from one under the now repealed Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA)," they said.Mallya, who is currently in London, through his counsel told the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass in a case lodged against him for allegedly evading summons in a FERA violation matter, that he was "making all efforts to have the revocation of passport set aside. ""I request you (counsel) to kindly convey to the judge that I have the utmost respect for his authority and towards the judicial system of the country, in general. "However, in the given circumstances, despite my best intentions to obey the order of the judge, I find myself incapacitated to travel to India, at this moment; even though I am making all the efforts to have the said revocation of my passport set aside," Mallya's email to his counsel said.

Source: Economic Times September 11, 2016 06:11 UTC