Dissident BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha fired a fresh salvo at the Modi government on Tuesday over the presence of scam-tainted diamantaire Nirav Modi with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Davos.

Opposition leaders held up a photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with leading Indian industrialists at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland's Davos today, asking how billionaire diamond merchant and jeweler Nirav Modi was allowed to leave the country reportedly days before a first information report was filed accusing him of a massive 11,000-crore fraud.

Nirav Modi's home, showrooms and offices in Mumbai, Delhi and Surat were searched on Thursday after Punjab National Bank (PNB) complained of staggering fraud at the cost of the taxpayer to benefit the celebrity jeweller and others. Nirav Modi, recently seen in a group photo in Davos with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, flew out of India on January 1. The Congress accuse...