Lalit Modi row: Congress drags Attorney General of India, Mukul Rohatgi into the case

NEW DELHI: The Congress has dragged Attorney General of India, Mukul Rohatgi, into the LaMo scandal, demanding a probe on his role in the government’s decision not to appeal against the Delhi High Court order restoring Lalit Modi’s passport.

The party also demanded an answer from Rohatgi on whether he had earlier led Modi’s legal defence and, if so, wouldn’t it amount to a “conflict of interest” in him, as the attorney general, advising the government in matters related to Modi cases.

“Now it is also important to probe whether there was also the complicity of government’s top legal office, the Attorney General of India, in influencing the government’s decision not to appeal against the Delhi High Court order restoring the passport of Lalit Modi,” said Anand Sharma, Congress’ deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha. “After all, the A-G’s opinion in such a case was bound to be crucial in addition to the opinion of the external affairs ministry and Enforcement Directorate of the ministry of finance,” he told ET.