Embattled cricket and sports tycoon Lalit Modi today tweeted an Interpol notice that says he isn't it is databases, and isn't subject to a Red Notice or diffusion.

The notice is dated March 24, 2017.

Lalit Modi was forced to flee India in 2010, after facing charges of financial irregularity. The process to extradite him from Britain is still pending.

Interpol's notice adds that it's aware that, in the past, Lalit Modi was the subject of data recorded in its databases, but the data was cancelled.

Lalit Modi also posted this message on Instagram.

POLITICAL STORM

Lalit Modi's Tweet is expected to create a political storm in the country. There were news reports as recently as March 10 that the Government of India was considering all legal options to deport or extradite him to India.

Without naming Lalit Modi or beleagured liquor baron Vijay Mallya, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in the Lok Sabha on March 10 that India was taking up the issue with the UK through diplomatic channels.

He even said he'd raised the issue with his UK counterpart during his recent visit to the country.

Lalit Modi may have escaped during the UPA government's regime, but his departure has also burnt the fingers of senior BJP leaders like Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje Scindia, who faced allegations of aiding him.

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