London: That the Indian government won on all counts in securing an order to extradite Nirav Modi shows India hitting the winning path at last in an English extradition court. In a quirky observation, magistrate Samuel Goozee ruled that detention conditions proposed for Nirav Modi in India are not just adequate, but a good deal better than they are in Wands worth prison where he has been detained for almost two years, since his arrest in March 2019.

Those are the very grounds on which Nirav Modi’s legal team sought to block his extradition. Nirav Modi was beaten All to Nil – the only way. Britain has an extradition law and an asylum law, Mallya leapfrogged from one to seek shelter under the other before anyone knew it. Mallya is unlikely to get asylum, but the move has bought him time.