Description Times Now has accessed a copy of the letter sent by Praful Patel to the Prime Minister, seeking the Prime Minister's intervention after Canadian authorities dragged his name in a bribery case.Union Minister Praful Patel found himself at the centre of pay-off allegations on Thursday (Feb 2) concerning a USD 100 million Air India contract during his tenure as Civil Aviation Minister, but he rubbished the charges as "baseless and preposterous". A leading Canadian newspaper, Globe and the Mail, reported that an Indian-born Canadian citizen, Nazir Karigar, is to be prosecuted on charges of paying off Patel in a case in which a former Mumbai police chief also figures.
