The United Breweries Group, which controls debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, said on Thursday that it has approached the Supreme Court on the summons issued to the airline by the Special Court for Economic Offences earlier in the day. The court had issued the summons to Kingfisher head Vijay Mallya on a complaint from the Income-Tax (I-T) Department on Tuesday that the company had not remitted Rs 74.94 crore which it deducted as tax deducted at source in 2009-10 from employee salaries. The I-T department also slapped on interest of Rs 23.70 crore on the airline for not meeting its deadline for payment. A UB Group spokesman said in a statement late on Thursday that the I-T department’s demand of Rs 74.94 crore on salary TDS has already been paid by the company to the tax authorities. Following various appeals against the I-T department’s tax demand, the company has approached the Supreme Court by means of a special leave petition and the hearing on the same has been posted