Sushma's daughter part of legal team in Lalit Modi's passport case

June 15, 2015 14:49

Indian Express reports: Sushma Swaraj has been asserting that she had done no wrong in facilitating Lalit Modi's travel documents from the UK and only acted on "humanitarian" grounds.

While a legal row over Modi's travel documents was raging in India, Sushma's daughter Bansuri was consistently appearing on Modi's behalf in Delhi high court.

Bansuri, a law graduate from Oxford University and a Barrister at Law from Inner Temple in UK, had appeared between April 2012 and August 2014 among the battery of lawyers representing Modi.

The roots of the legal battle lay in the Enforcement Directorate's summons to Modi in 2010 for an inquiry under FEMA. Modi failed to respond, the ED initiated proceedings and, in March 2011, the Regional Passport Office, Mumbai, revoked his passport (No. Z-1784222) "in the interest of the general public".

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