london a judgment as to whether fugitive indian tycoon vijay mallya should be extradited to face charges in india will be made on december 10 by westminster magistrates courtchief magistrate emma arbuthnot made the announcement on wednesday after hearing closing submissions in the yearandahalflong case adding there is an awful lot to get through and i am going to have to go into the detailin her closing oral submissions mallyas barrister clare montgomery qc said the video of the prison cell mallya would stay in is a varnished version and hinted the charges were politically motivated claiming that cbi special director rakesh asthana had threatened banks with reprisals if they did not file charges against the liquor baronmontgomery also told the court that there was no evidence from the government of india and referred to much of it as bizarrethe government of india wants to extradite mallya 62 to face charges of fraud and cheating after defaulting on loans worth rs 9000 crore from indian banks to his now defunct kingfisher airlinesone of the features you may have to consider is whether this case is being fought for reasons other than ordinary criminal law ones there is no evidence and the prosecution has persisted in refusing to give you all the documents that show this was lending supported by the state bank of india montgomery saidshe then went on to attack asthana who was sitting in courtthis is a matter in which the cbi have been forced to file charges and i hope you recall the newspaper report which states that rakesh asthana went to heads of banks and threatened them with reprisals if they did not file charges against mallya if that was fake news you would have thought it would have been dealt with asthana has been solemnly sitting in court throughout she saidshe told the court mallya has made offers to settle the most recent one being one worth nearly 15 billion before the karnataka high court the idea this was a carefully thought out strategy by him with the knowledge kingfisher airlines was bound to fail is nonsense it is a financial disaster for him as much as the banks as the result of a failing airline failing to recover she saidcan a jury safely exclude this being an ordinary commercial loan which failed for ordinary commercial reasonsshe sought to disprove allegations that the loans had been obtained by supplying false information relating to kingfisher profits the airline losses were known to idbi and openly debated she saidshe tried to dismiss claims mallya had sought to avoid meeting the obligations of the securities he offered she said the personal guarantee from mallya was regarded as having little value by the bank itself and the corporate guarantees were regarded as being of limited valuemontgomery also ripped into a video of the barracks at mumbais arthur road jail where mallya will be housed sent by the cbi to arbuthnot and demanded a prison visit someone has done