IPL Chairman Lalit Modi was yesterday questioned by a joint team of Income Tax and Enforcement Directorate officials probing alleged financial irregularities by the T20 cricket body and its franchises. Officials of the two agencies began the exercise around 8.30 this morning at Modi’s office at upscale Four Seasons hotel in central Mumbai and later shifted the venue to the IPL top honcho’s office at Nirlon House in Worli.
It is for a second time in less than 24 hours that Modi is being questioned by the IT. He was also quizzed last Thursday about IPL bidding process and issues relating to franchisee owners.
Last night the IT officials had questioned him barely hours after its sleuths searched the premises of three entities associated with the hugely successful cricket entity.
Are India’s common people so idiots not to know the names/details of IAS/IRS officers (in the FINMIN, Deptt.of Revenue, CBDT, IT DEPTT.)who have been fighting with each other to arreact the attention of the fallen hero? If not now, one day not very distant all that will indeed become public knowledge and the media will flash those names. Let the CBI call for the names of the beneficiaries of the hospitality extended to the officers during the IPL matches, in the form of free VVIP Passes.
This is an open challenge.