‘Re-clarify’ confidential report, Mumbai CM tells Commissioner

Sensing significance of Maria’s report, Fadnavis, who also holds the home portfolio, asked him to “re-clarify” the matter on Saturday, with more inputs and updates regarding his meeting with the IPL czar. It was learnt that in July 2014, Maria had met Modi while he was in London for a conference. 

Modi, along with his lawyers, went to meet him in London where the former IPL commissioner told him that his life was in danger and he was getting regular threats from the underworld. 

The meeting lasted for 12-15 minutes in which Maria reportedly told him very clearly that he would not be able to do anything for him in London and would have to come to Mumbai and file an official complaint about it.

Later, after coming back to Mumbai, Maria prepared a “confidential report” based on his meeting with Modi, which he submitted to Patil. 

Maria’s statement comes a day after the Scotland Yard, London’s metropolitan police authority, claimed that they have no knowledge of any threat to Modi, who has been living in London on a self-imposed exile since 2010.

Speaking to Millennium Post, Maria said: “I have already said what I had to. I have nothing more to add in this matter.”

Earlier, Maria, the lead investigator in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case, faced serious allegations made by Vinita Kamte, slain Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte’s wife. She leveled the accusations against Maria in her book To The Last Bullet claiming that his poor decision led to her husband’s death.

Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers protested outside External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s residence in Delhi. 

More than 300 volunteers, including AAP MLA from Palam, Bhavna Gaur, protested outside her residence in Central Delhi.

Alleging that the “silence” of the Prime Minister on the issue is “deafening” and is a “definite proof” that the BJP’s topmost leadership has “many things to hide”, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said the PM has not been speaking because the “unholy nexus is now surfacing”.

“The government has got caught in a trap of its own making. The only way out for the PM for the survival of his government and saving the monsoon session of Parliament is resignation of Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje,” he said.