India, Feb. 12 -- The Bombay High Court on Thursday said that if Vijay Mallya wants the court to consider his petition challenging the validity of the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 (FEO Act), he should first return to India.

"You have to come back. If you cannot come back, then we cannot hear this plea," the bench warned, according to a report by Bar and Bench

A bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad is hearing Mallya's plea challenging the FEO Act and the proceedings declaring him a fugitive economic offender.

The court also asked him to make it clear that his challenge to the Act would not be heard unless he submitted to the court's jurisdiction, the report added.

Despite these directions, the ...