Poor Lalit Modi. He went a little too fast with his scam and partied a little too hard in front of public eyes. As per a confidential income tax report,he bought a luxury yacht, a private jet, haveli's in Rajasthan, a fleet of Mercedes S-class cars and what not! All in the last three years! He gave every possible deal to do with IPL to his relatives and family and friends or to people whom he owed money-so that they don't come behind him. Again, this is as per that report which came out in The Economic Times. More, he took personal stakes in disguise in three of the IPL teams and is supposed to have been himself involved in fixing the outcomes of IPL matches along with a prominent page 3 personality; again according to the same report. He is linked to Betfair- a UK firm that runs one of the world's largest betting syndicates on the internet- and is helping it to enter the casino and hospitality business in India! This is what the Income Tax Department scooped out from Latli Modi's email box. And all this an unbelievable six months back. But then the government didn't take any action till Modi in his stupidity tried to puplicly challenge Tharoor because Tharoor gate-crashed into Modi's IPL party while he wanted to give that franchise to another big industrial house along with a couple of more film stars!
To undo the IPL scam, what we must do minimum is take away all the franchisees given unfairly and re-auction them fairly including those given out in the first round of auctions. And see to it that such shameful privatisation of everything public through unfair means should stop with immediate effect. Otherwise, we will only have more and more of BPL while IPLs and such similar scams keep thriving. Utter shame!
