Mumbai: Former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi today came out with his first response over a snowballing controversy over Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj helping him gain emergency travel papers in Britain.
Mr Modi's lawyer Mehmood Abdi is addressing a press conference in Mumbai. Here are the highlights:
Mr Modi's lawyer Mehmood Abdi is addressing a press conference in Mumbai. Here are the highlights:
- We present our perspective on the issue
- The non-issues have been blown out of proportion and a situation has been created as if heaven has fallen
- It is the favorite topic of my media friends to tarnish Lalit Modi on any pretext
- Fugitive and offender are legal terms which can't be used so generously as the media is using
- Fugitive or offender is a legal term and a court has to declare
- Some channels have been saying Lalit's wife was not ill. Are they aware of medical advise?
- It is the height of irresponsibility and insensitivity
- Blue corner notice is a fabricated document; from the day he went to England, Lalit Modi has been communicating with Enforcement Directorate (ED) and police, so where is the need to issue a blue corner notice.
- Lalit Modi has been staying with knowledge of everybody in UK, by following due process of UK immigration laws.
- Interpol secretariat says no blue corner notice has been issued, this claim that has been flying around for the last 2 days has been demolished.
- Since Lalit Modi broke that connection of late Mrs Sunanda Tharoor's sweat equity by his tweets, he has been hounded by the agencies in India.
- Entire UPA government was after Lalit Modi, they tried to scuttle his chances of getting permission to stay in UK
- Police files show Dawood was actively following Lalit Modi... but his security was withdrawn in 2010, after which he went to the UK because security is a very private matter.
- The people who have got A Raja to Jamai Raja should introspect and not talk of propriety.
- Honourable foreign minister did not intervene, lived up to her duty to help any Indian outside the country who is in trouble
- They are drawing parallel between Dawood Ibrahim and Lalit Modi. They have no sense of balance.
- Entire case of Lalit Modi's passport was argued and order was reserved during UPA's period, no conflict of interest.
- This is a political jamboree, people who are in political wilderness, vagabonds are trying to catch eyeballs.
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