New Delhi: Lalit Modi’s father, Indofil chairman K.K. Modi, said the proposal to Mr Kaushal was withdrawn before it could be brought for the Board’s consideration. “So the Board never considered that request. That is the current situation,” he said.
The Congress demanded that the government should make public the minutes of a meeting it claimed Ms Swaraj had with British high commissioner to India James Bevan to push for the grant of UK travel documents to Lalit Modi.
It also sought to know from the Prime Minister if any Union minister’s relative had received any job offer from Mr Lalit Modi recently, while asserting that such offers have been made.
The BJP, however, claimed that the Opposition party had run out of ideas and was now desperately “clutching at straws”.
The Enforcement Directorate has, meanwhile, added some charges of violation of the Foreign Exchange Management Act to the FIRs against the former IPL boss and others in a money-laundering case relating to the IPL.
The inclusion of forex violation charges, “prima facie established” against them, in the criminal FIR lodged over the alleged money-laundering, will bolster the ED’s case as it would lend weight to its letters rogatories (request for assistance sent by a court in one country to another).
The authorities in foreign countries rarely render any assistance in civil cases like those for Fema violations, but take violations of criminal laws like those for money-laundering a lot more seriously.
