Indian police register case against Modi 18/10/2010 |
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The Chennai police have registered a case against Lalit Modi, the former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman, and six others on allegations of criminal conspiracy, cheating and falsification of accounts, according to reports in India.
The case is based on a complaint filed by the Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) in India last week, claims the Hindu newspaper.
Four of the six others named in the case are from the World Sport Group: its chairman Seamus O'Brian, its chief operating officer Andrew Georgio, and the president and vice-president of its South Asia operations, Venu Nair and Haris Krishnamachari.
The other two are Ajay Varma, representative of software and security firm Visual Impact, and Kunal Dasgupta, the former head of Multi-Screen Media, the broadcast rights holder for the IPL.
The case has been registered under Sections 409 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery), 477 A (falsification of accounts) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
This is the first step of a police investigation under Indian law. The allegations will now be probed by police and legal experts, who will press charges if they find evidence and eventually take the case to court.
The move to file charges is a continuation of the decisions taken at a special general meeting of the board in June this year.
"It has taken the BCCI a while to press the criminal charges because we were getting legal opinions and all the paperwork ready," a BCCI official told Cricinfo.
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