Mumbai, Feb. 16 -- On Thursday, fugitive billionaire Vijay Mallya, currently contesting India's successful extradition bid (he is in London) in British courts, sent a message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter, offering to settle his dues to banks. "I respectfully ask why the Prime Minister is not instructing his banks to take the money I have put on the table so he can at least claim credit for full recovery of public funds lent to Kingfisher," he said in a series of tweets. Mr Mallya's company, Kingfisher Airlines, defaulted on loans worth around ~9000 crore to a consortium of Indian banks (led by State-owned State Bank of India), and he fled the country just before a Bengaluru debt court ordered action against him....