Is Sushma Swaraj a Victim of Cricket Hacking?
With stories of BCCI members and Lalit Modi's emails being hacked, is it possible that the mail trail between Sushma Swaraj and Keith Vaz was discovered by the London based security agency and subsequently leaked? Sushma Swaraj may be paying the price for her friendship with Lalit Modi and his enmity with N. Srinivasan and Arun Jaitley.
NDTV had reported on the April 26 this year how the BCCI members had disclosed during the working committee meeting about their e-mails and conversations being hacked into, ahead of the annual general meeting in March. Subsequently the current BCCI office bearers also had a bill of Rs 14 Crore from a security agency in London. The question was, did Srinivasan use BCCI money to spy on his colleagues? (Lalit Modi Visa Row: Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj Defends Decision)
Subsequently, in an interview to NDTV on May 4, Anurag Thakur, the secretary said, "It is a serious allegation. I have written to the former office bearers to tell us if an agency has been hired and guide us in this respect." However, there has been no response from the former BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel yet.
The question is, could the security agency, that was spying on Lalit Modi have dipped into the conversations between Keith Vaz and Sushma Swaraj?
Aditya Verma of Bihar Cricket Association, who was the petitioner in the IPL scam case, says that there is a strong possibility of mails having leaked from there that is because Lalit Modi is the only link in the entire story. He has in fact written to the Prime Minister to conduct a CBI inquiry into mail hacking. "Srinivasan has been spying on several officials. Everyone knows his equation with Lalit Modi. It is possible, the agency spying on Modi came across these mails and leaked them. I have written to the Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) to have this investigated properly. It is a matter of the country's internal security," Verma told NDTV.
This is not the first time that stories of phone tapping and hacking have done the rounds in cricket circles. Lalit Modi had claimed earlier that Justice Mukul Mudgal's phone conversations were being tapped while he was in London to speak to Modi. An influential BCCI member has told NDTV, "Lalit Modi had employed an Israeli agency to spy on Srinivasan and the Chennai Super King paid back by hiring from London."
Could it be possible that while N Srinivasan and Lalit Modi were fighting their own battle, Sushma Swaraj's interest was compromised? The jury is still out on that one.