New Delhi, March 22 -- : Sam Pitroda, a close confidant of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, on Friday described the arrest of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi in London as an "event" and said the courts will the decide such cases.

He was replying to a question on Nirav Modi during an exclusive interview to ANI.

Asked about the BJP charge that most of the economic offenders got freebies and easy loans due to political pressure during the UPA government and that the current BJP-led dispensation made stricter laws, he said, "Look, I don't buy all this crap. All I say is event-based politics does not make sense. This is an event. Nirav Modi is an event."

Pitroda, also the chairman of Overseas Indian National Congress, said, "I am talking more...