The father of IPL, Lalit Modi, left India in May 2010.
The idea of IPL, the world’s biggest cricket league, was the brainchild of businessman Lalit Modi. But after the first three seasons of the tournament, he had to leave the country and go abroad. Lalit left the country in May 2010.
On the other hand, now the first chairman of IPL has made many shocking revelations about IPL, cricket and leaving India. Lalit Modi has told why he left India and what threat he faced from underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
Lalit Modi gave a shocking statement
Let us tell you that recently Lalit Modi has made many shocking revelations on social media influencer and podcaster Raj Shamani’s show ‘Figuring Out’. In this show, he has told that he was facing threat to his life from underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim, due to which he had to leave the country.
In this show, Lalit Modi said- I left the country when I received death threats. When I reached the airport, I saw that Police Commissioner Himanshu Roy was waiting for me. They told me, we can’t protect you anymore. It will impact your life. We can ensure your safety only for the next 12 hours. They could only protect me from the airport to the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai.
Modi was quoted by Times of India as saying – Dawood Ibrahim was behind me because he was match fixing and there was no plan for me to fix matches. For me, anti-corruption was a big thing and the integrity of the game was very important.
After this, Dawood Ibrahim made strategic conspiracies against me at many places, which has been documented. These were not just empty threats, these were real, life-threatening attempts that could have ended my life. But I remained firm on my principles.