Lalit Modi: No notice against Arun Jaitley, Rajeev Shukla as they are political heavyweights?
In a series of tweets, the former IPL czar even asked why other GC members including Jaitley and Rajeev Shukla not being charged and why are they not being called economic offenders.
Targeting Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and senior Congress leader Rajiv Shukla, former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi on Wednesday asked why he is being singled out and why are others not being charged.
In a series of tweets, the former IPL czar even asked why other GC members including Jaitley and Shukla were not being charged and why are they not being called economic offenders.
"On FEMA/ED don't single me out. Seek the facts, don't let perceptions cloud you," Lalit Modi tweeted.
"If I am an economic offender why are Rajeev Shukla and Arun Jaitley not economic offenders," he added.
The former IPL commisioner in one of his tweets even revealed that he is not the only one against whom Enforcement Directorate notice has been issued. The Directorate of Enforcement has issued notices to 7 others including The Board of Control for Cricket in India, former BCCI president Shashank Manohar, former BCCI secretary N Srinivasan, BCCI treasurer MP Pandove, BCCI Chief Executive Officer Ratnakkar Shetty, Manager, Business and Commercial Services Prasanna Kannan and IPL COO Sunder Raman.
"Notice #5 of 11 - Look closely at the document. Why single me out when there are 8 other noticees?," he said.
"Out of 8 noticees, only 1 person wrongly portrayed as an economic offender. What about other 8 noticees?"
"ED didn't charge an individual but a group! Others Srini, Shashank, Pandove, Shetty, Kannan @ramansundar, he tweeted.
Out of 8 noticees, I was the only one SINGLED OUT! Only my passport was revoked. Why just me? #Lalitgate pic.twitter.com/858qhjSFj0&; Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) June 30, 2015
This is not the first time when Lalit Modi has attacked the cricket fraternity. Refusing to go down without a fight, an unplugged former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi on Monday attacked his bete noire and current International Cricket Council chairman N Srinivasan and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the massive controversy surrounding him and dared the government to make the report of the Justice Mudgal committee, which probed the IPL scam, public.
In an exclusive interview with India Today TV's Consulting Editor Boria Majumdar in London, Modi had asked, "Why is Srinivasan the head of the ICC anti-corruption branch?" Srinivasan, former chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is also the owner of IPL franchise, Chennai Super Kings.
Claiming that he is not behind the leak of the emails to the ICC in which three players were named for IPL spot-fixing, Modi said, "The BCCI leaked my mails to the ICC because of internal politics. If I had wanted to do it, I would have done so three years ago."