Mumbai court issues non-bailable warrant against Lalit Modi
For over the past few weeks, Lalit Modi has been in national news for his alleged close links to top BJP leaders-an issue the opposition has readily grabbed to take the country's politics to a boiling point.
In recent weeks, the clamour to bring Mr Modi back to India to face investigation has reached to a crescendo with the the opposition Congress accusing the government of shielding a "fugitive".
The revelation that Exernal Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj spoke to UK officials last year , resulting in Modi getting urgent travel papers to accompany his wife to Portugal has prompted the opposition to put its foot down for her resignation.
The opposition has also been demanding the resignation of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who as Modi himself disclosed, had backed his immigration appeal.
Modi, 49, was the founder of the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL), the domestic 20-20 cricket tournament.
He left the country amid allegations of tax evasion, money-laundering and proxy ownership in the IPL.
Media reports have quoted the Enforcement Direcorate as saying that the court's order will now be forwarded to the Home Ministry which in its turn could send it to the UK or to the interpol. The ED is probing the alleged money laundering case.
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