Modi was given a suspended 2-year sentence, 5-year probation.
AB Wire
Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has always been a magnet for controversy. Three decades ago, while he was a sophomore at Duke University in North Carolina, he was arrested for drug possession and kidnapping and unlawfully restraining a 16-year-old. He pleaded guilty to charges of possessing cocaine, false imprisonment and assault, documents obtained by The American Bazaar reveal. (See the document below.)
Modi, then a student, was indicted on February 24, 1985, for kidnapping Alexander Van Dyne…
“by unlawfully confining him, restraining him, and removing him from one place to another without his consent and for the purpose of doing serious bodily injury to him and terrorizing him. Alexander Van Dyne was seriously injured and said kidnapping was committed in violation of N.C.G.S.[North Carolina General Statutes] 14-39.
The indictment further states that Modi “unlawfully” and “willfully” did:
Assault and inflict serious injury upon Alexander Van Dyne by beating him with hands (fists), and feet, kicking him, and hitting him in the face, causing soft tissue injuries, bruises, black eye, lacerations about the face and body, possible kidney damage, and requiring hospitalization for two days for treatment, in violation of N.C.G.S 14-33(b)(1).
The arrest warrant issued on February 24, 1985, states:
[Modi did] assault Alex Van Duyne with a deadly weapon, his hands and feet, by beating him with his … Fists and kicking him with his feet several times resulting in serious injury the … legs and … lacerations about the face and body and broken bones in the face. The assault was intended to kill and resulted in serious injury
Modi pleaded guilty to the felony charge of:
… conspiracy to possess with intent to deliver more than one gram of the schedule II Controlled Substance, Cocaine
He also pleaded guilty to the misdemeanors of “False imprisonment… and simple assault.”
Modi was given a suspended two-year sentence. As a special conditions for his probation, in addition to “300 hours of community or reparation service, the court ordered:
That the defendant continue to receive counseling and treatment for drug abuse and that said treatment shall include a regular uninalysis or chemical tests for detection of controlled substance and pay the costs.
He was allowed to serve the probation in Connecticut.
On the drug possession charges, he was put on a probation for five years.
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