Maria did NOT brief me about meeting Lalit Modi: Prithviraj Chavan
June 22, 2015  14:43
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Former Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan says he was never informed about Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria's meeting with tainted IPL chief Lalit Modi in London in July 2014. Speaking to CNN IBN, Chavan, who was CM during the same period said, Maria did not speak to him after returning from London and did not brief him about the Lalit Modi meeting. Chavan said he also had no idea that Maria had been to London.


A fresh controversy broke out on Saturday in the Lalit Modi episode after it emerged that Maria had met the tainted ex-IPL boss in London in 2014, when the latter sought the help of Mumbai police in view of the "threat" to his life by the underworld in that country.


Admitting that he had met Modi at the insistence of the latter's lawyer, Maria on Saturday clarified that he apprised the home minister about the meeting soon after returning from London.


Issuing a statement, Maria said, "In the month of July 2014, I officially attended a conference in London. At the conference, I was approached by an advocate representing Lalit Modi who stated that Lalit Modi wanted to meet me regarding a grave threat to his life and that of his family in London.


"Modi, the first commissioner of Indian Premier League, and others are facing probe by the Enforcement Directorate in alleged forex violation cases.

'It may be recollected that as joint commissioner of police, crime, Mumbai, in year 2009-10, the crime branch under me had foiled an attempt on his (Modi's) life by the Mumbai underworld," Maria said.
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