Desperate Lalit Modi to drag BCCI to court

Battered, bruised and deserted, Lalit Modi is not going down without a fight. Despite a growing pile of legal tangles, the Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman has, ironically, taken recourse to a legal suit. It is learnt Modi will move court to have the April 26 IPL governing council meeting stayed. His legal counsels are bigwigs Harish Salve and Ram Jethmalani, who fought for rival camps (RIL and RNRL, respectively) in the Ambani vs Ambani gas war.

A source in the Modi camp said documents are being readied and the suit will be filed in the civil court on Friday; it will be taken to the Bombay high court as a last resort.

The fact became known on Thursday after Modi met his most ‘reliable’ associate in the IPL, Mumbai Indians’ Mukesh Ambani.