UPDATED: March 2, 2021 17:32 IST
Jayanti Dharma Teja s profile is remarkably similar to that of the present Vijay Mallya, another absconder from the judicial process in India (File Photo)
The likely extradition of diamond merchant Nirav Modi has brought back memories of another fugitive, Jayanti Dharma Teja, the lawbreaker charged with evading taxes worth crores and forcing the Indira Gandhi regime to pursue him in three jurisdictions United States, Costa Rica and United Kingdom before he was successfully brought to India in 1971.
In “Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London”, London-based journalists Danish and Ruhi Khan have given a compelling account of Teja and India’s chase for him across three continents.