Indian police have opened a case against sacked Indian Premier League supremo Lalit Modi, who is implicated in an alleged 106-million-dollar scam, a report said Thursday. The Hindu newspaper said that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday lodged a complaint with police over the misappropriation of funds amounting to 4.68 billion rupees (106 million dollars) during IPL events.
The newspaper said police in the southern city of Chennai, where the BCCI is based, had registered a case against Modi and six others "on charges including criminal conspiracy, cheating and falsification of accounts." Under Indian law, this is the first step of a police investigation, which will lead to the accusations being probed by police and legal experts. Charges and prosecution will follow if evidence is found of wrongdoing.