Mumbai: Hitting out at its ally BJP, the Shiv Sena today asked why the government was not backing Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria the same way as it was doing so in the case of its leaders Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhra Raje in the Lalit Modi controversy.

The Sena said casting aspersions on Maria would mean "making a mountain out of a molehill". "What Lalit Modi has done with IPL may be an issue of contention but the Mumbai Police Commissioner has no right to handcuff him and bring him back here or to Delhi when he is living in London with the permission of authorities.