The Rise, Again A Fall
- 1985: Modi arrested in US on drugs and abduction charges. Plea bargain gets him deferred term
- 1986: Returns to India citing bad health. Joins family business
- 1991: Marries mother’s friend Minal Sagrani
- 2004: Becomes vice-president of Punjab Cricket Association
- 2005: Becomes president of Rajasthan Cricket Association
- 2008: IPL is launched; BJP loses power in Rajasthan
- 2009: IPL taken to South Africa; Modi loses RCA elections
- 2010: Loses RCA elections again; Kochi team scandal surfaces
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By 1986, Lalit Modi, with a cocaine possession and abduction conviction behind him, was through with everyman’s gilded dreamland—the United States of America. Yet...
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