Attached Vijay Mallya shares were part of unpaid Yes Bank loan
India TodayProactive measures by the Enforcement Directorate have helped the SBI-led consortium of banks recover Rs 1,008 crore worth of NPA through the sale of United Breweries Ltd shares that were held by Vijay Mallya. ED's investigation in the Vijay Mallya/Kingfisher Airlines case has revealed that substantial assets in the form of United Breweries Limited's shares were lying with Yes Bank. Yes Bank did not heed to the Recovery Officer's directions, so the DRT, in July 2018, passed an order to attach Yes Bank's assets. As the shares were already frozen, Yes Bank filed a writ petition in 2018 in the Karnataka High Court seeking to quash the DRT's order to attach Yes Bank's assets. On February 27, the Karnataka High Court passed an order directing Yes Bank to surrender UBHL's shares in favour of the Recovery Officer within three weeks from the date of receiving the order and further stating that the attachment and the sale, if any, of the shares in question shall be subject to a decision by a competent court including the order passed by the special court under the provisions of the Act.