I-T Officials at IPL Offices

Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi was questioned for as long as eight hours over the financial dealings and share holding patterns of the cricketing body as Income Tax officials left his Worli-based office early on Friday.

I-T officials visited IPL Head-Quarters at Wankhede Stadium as also Modi’s office at Nirlon House in upmarket Worli, where they quizzed him from 7.15 pm to 3.20 am.

Modi, speaking to reporters later, said the I-T officials were visiting several places in the city in a bid to find out details of the bidding process and when he came to know of it, he invited them over to his office.

“They were given documentation details, they verified the documents and went through the entire process of bidding. We fully cooperated with them and provided them with all they required,” the IPL Commissioner said.

Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi and the eight IPL teams have been under the tax scanner for two years but it took the face-off between Modi and Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor to get the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to act.