London: The fugitive NRI, liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s application for permission to appeal his extradition to India in the UK Supreme Court was rejected on Thursday. The 64 year old flamboyant businessmen with just one escaped route from incarceration in an Indian jail.

On Thursday, at 10.30 am whilst Mallya’s lawyers were busy representing Nirav Modi at his extradition hearing, Lord Justice Irwin and Justice Elizabeth Laing, the High Court Judges who had dismissed Mallya’s appeal against extradition on April- 20, 2020, ruled there was no point of law of general public importance involved in their decision. This meant the UK Supreme Court could have no jurisdiction over his case. Mallya, once a regular fixture on India’s party scene now has only one last option, to obtain an emergency injunction, known as Interium measures pursuant to Rule 39, from the European Court of Human Rights, the International Court in Strasburg, France.

Interim measures are normally decided with 48 hours. His chances of getting Interim measures are “Moderate”, said Benkeith, an extradition Lawyer at Five Street Andrew’s hill, London. If he fails to get the injunction, he has to be extradited to India within 28 days of May 14^th.