Finance Ministry gives clean chit to Tharoor, guns for Modi
New Delhi:In a major development, a day after Shashi Tharoor was
shown the door from the Union Cabinet,the Finance Ministry's report has given a clean chit to him in connection with the Kochi IPL deal. Tharoor resigned on
Sunday night as the Minister of State for External Affairs. The Income Tax (I-T)
department has said Tharoor did not benefit from the Kochi -IPL deal. The ministry
said the I-T department is probing IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi's offshore money
and trying to find out if stakeholders are fronts for Modi. Meanwhile, a section
of the media, has said that IT officials are probing Modi's involvement in black
money and betting. The alleged opaqueness with which Modi has conducted the multi-billion
dollar cricket tournament, and the manner in which he took on Home Minister P
Chidambaram in 2009, seems to have resulted in a detailed inquiry into his activities
by the I-T department.
