'Explain why you met lalit Modi in UK'

A day after Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria confirmed that he had met scam-tainted former IPl Commissioner lalit Modi in July 2014, the Maharashtra Government has sought an explanation from Maria on the statement made by him in the media.Talking to media in Nagpur, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, “We have asked Rakesh Maria to give information about the meeting and what he had told the media. Based on it, we would decide the further course of action”. 

Fadnavis, who holds the State Home portfolio, said: “Our Government has decided not to act hastily and would wait for Maria’s response. let the information come to us”.Meanwhile, Maria — who had investigated the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai — had, after a photograph of him with the scam-tainted former IPl Commissioner, confirmed his meeting with lalit Modi in london in 2004.

In a statement issued by him to the media, Maria said he had approached by a lawyer representing lalit Modi, while he was attending a conference in london in July 2014.Maria said that the lawyer in question requested him to meet Modi briefly citing the reasons of the threat to latter’s life. “As per the lawyer’s insistence, we met albeit briefly wherein Modi sought the Mumbai Police’s help as he and his family was being threatened by the underworld,” he said.

“It may be recollected that as Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) in the year 2009-10, the Crime Branch under me had foiled an attempt on his life by the Mumbai under world,” Maria said in his statement.