L’affaire LaMo
- Ex-interpol chief says there is no blue corner notice issued by the UPA government against Lalit Modi
- Arun Jaitley says there is a “light blue corner notice” issued by the directorate of revenue intelligence
- MEA tells Outlook that there was no request for extradition of Lalit Modi by the Enforcement Directorate
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In World War II, the Germans developed something called the sprengbombe dickwandig aka the ‘cluster bomb’, which with its number of explosions over a wider area posed risks to all in its vicinity—and some even far beyond. Some two weeks ago, and for whatever reason, a human cluster bomb called Lalit Kumar Modi was set off by someone.
Its first big blast hit external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on June 7. And on a nightly basis since then, various sub-bombs let off by LaMo have affected civilians across the divide. Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje one day, her...