Amin was part of consortium: Lalit Modi

NEW DELHI: Chirayu Amin, too, came under the ethics cloud when suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi claimed that IPL’s interim chairman was part of the consortium that made an unsuccessful bid for the Pune franchise in March this year.

Mr Modi said Aniruddha Deshpande, managing director of City Corporation in which Sharad Pawar and his family has 16% shares, made the bid in March for a new consortium which included Mr Amin. “There were three members in the consortium that was part of the bid. They were Aniruddha, Akruti and Chirayu Amin,” said Mr Modi, whose suspension saw Mr Amin being appointed as the interim IPL chairman. “It’s a fact of life and I cannot change or distort facts. They were the bidders, one can’t change that,” Mr Modi said.

Mr Modi had earlier defended Mr Pawar, saying no one from the agriculture minister’s family had anything to do with Mr Deshpande’s bid.