Lalit Modi also claimed that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor had threatened him with enforcement action if he refused to approve the deal.

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Lalit Modi alleged that he was ‘forced’ to sign documents granting a 25% ownership stake in the Kochi team of IPL to Sunanda Pushkar, the late wife of Tharoor, despite no financial contribution from her side.

Just after the auction, Lalit Modi explosively accused former BCCI President and CSK owner N Srinivasan of how the latter requested him to drop Sri Lanka’s Thisara Perera to make room for the English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff.