Updated On: 16 June, 2015 06:42 AM IST | | Vinay Dalvi and Subodh Mayure
<p>Modi and foreign minister Sushma Swaraj have been at the centre of a controversy after it emerged that the latter had helped the beleaguered ex-IPL chief with his travel papers for flying to Portugal to be with his cancer-stricken wife</p>

Tainted cricket administrator Lalit Modi’s lawyer yesterday blamed politicians for the controversy surrounding the former cricket official’s visit to Portugal last year to be with his ill wife.

Mehmood Abdi, Lalit Modi’s lawyer, said his client wouldn’t return to India until the “situation alters.” Pic/Satyajit Desai