Mumbai, April 16: After an overnight operation at the BCCI headquarters and the offices of IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, the Income Tax department may now call him for further questioning with regard to the bidding process for the hughely popular cricket league.
I-T sources said during the seven-hour operation that ended in the small hours of today they took copies of the bidding documents of all the franchisees including the Kochi consortium, over which a controversy involving union minister Shashi Tharoor has arisen.
“We may call him for questioning as being a Commissioner he is involved in all the financial and other businesses of the IPL,” a senior I-T department official said on the condition of anonymity.
–Agencies