Parliament Passes Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill 2018 

To prevent big economic offenders like Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya from fleeing the country, the parliament on Wednesday passed the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, 2018.

The opposition, however, attacked the government for lacking will to stop such defaulters despite having several laws.

During the discussion in Rajya Sabha, several opposition party MPs raised the issue of putting a threshold of Rs 100 crore for booking offenders under the law and whether offenders will come back to the country when their properties are attached by the investigative agencies under. "Is the government's intention to get a lot of publicity by bringing the law.