<span style="color: #222222;">Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has termed the statement of fugitive industrialist Vijay Mallya as false and said he never gave appointment to Mallya since 2014. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr Jaitley response came in the wake of a claim, made to the media by Mallya in London on having met the Finance Minister with an offer of settlement. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Talking to a news agency in New Delhi today, Mr Jaitley said, he never gave him an appointment, neither at his office and nor at his residence.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr Jaitley said, Mallya's statement is factually false. Finance Minister said, Mallya as a Member of Rajya Sabha occasionally attended the House. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He said, Mallya misused this privilege on one occasion, while he was walking out of the House to go to his room. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr Jaitley said, Mallya paced up to catch up with him and while walking uttered a sentence that he was making an offer of settlement. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Minister said, he curtly told Mallya that there was no point talking to me and he must make offers to his bankers.</span><br />''