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Helping Tainted IPL Mughal Lalit Modi Is Legally+Morally Wrong:BJP MP R K Singh

[New Delhi]Helping Tainted IPL Mughal Lalit Modi Is Legally+Morally Wrong:BJP MP R K Singh
BJP MP R K Singh today struck a discordant note over party leaders [MEA] Sushma Swaraj + [CM Raj]Vasundhara Raje extending help to former IPL boss Lalit Modi, saying “any help to a fugitive is legally and morally wrong”.
He urged the government to take all measures to bring him back to India to face the law.
Singh’s strong comments are the first public criticism by a ruling party MP against the help extended to Lalit Modi by External Affairs Minister Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Raje, an issue which has snowballed into a major political storm for the Narendra Modi government even though BJP has defended both the leaders.
“If anybody helps a ‘bhagoda’ (fugitive), it is wrong.
This is wrong legally as well as morally. If anybody meets a fugitive, it is absolutely wrong. Whosoever has helped him, I think it is completely wrong,” Singh, a former Home Secretary,told media
He said Lalit Modi had been evading judicial warrants and summons and he was clearly a fugitive and any help given to him or any meeting with him was wrong.
He did not name either Swaraj or Raje.
Lalit Modi, 49, travelled to London in 2010 after the Indian Premier League (IPL) became embroiled in allegations of match-fixing and illegal betting.