BCCI denies ‘understanding’ with former IPL Chairman Lalit Modi
After refuting Lalit Modi's petition of recomposing the disciplinary committee, the Board of Control of Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 (BCCI) on Thursday turned down the reports that the board had reached an "understanding"
with the former IPL chairman in the current investigation into charges of financial irregularities levied against Modi.
Media reports stated that the discipline committee member Arun Jaitley and Modi's lawyer Ram Jethmalani had a meeting last night to work out a conciliation.
The BCCI confirmed the meeting but said that no peace formula was on the agenda of that very meeting. The Chief Administrative Officer of BCCI, Prof RS Shetty, said in a statement: "Mr. Arun Jaitley and Mr. Ram
Jethmalani met yesterday night for some other matter not connected to BCCI."
On Wednesday, the board had refuted Modi's appeal of reconstituting the disciplinary panel, saying that the committee was in an "advanced stage". The Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices Gyan Sudha Mishra and
JM Panchal, wanted both the parties - the BCCI and suspended IPL commissioner - to sort out the possibility of reconstituting the probe panel but the counsel of BCCI, senior advocate CS Sundaram, told the court that no external member could be added into the
probe panel as the case is a ‘fact-finding’ and internal committee would solve it.
Earlier, Modi’s lawyer, Mr Ram Jethmalani, had repeatedly asked the court for the recusal of IPL chairman Chirayu Amin and BCCI vice-president Arun Jaitley with a logical apprehension that the accused IPL chairman
would not get a fair deal as both the members were biased against him. The lawyer pled that the members who had been part of the committee that issued a show-cause notice to the former IPL commissioner should not be part of probe panel.
"I want people with a clean slate," he submitted and contended that Chirayu Amin, who was involved in the decision to issue show-cause notices and later replaced Modi as the IPL Commissioner, cannot be a member
of the disciplinary committee.
Modi had challenged the July 15 verdict of the Bombay High Court in the apex court after his plea for the removal of Amin and Arun Jaitley was dismissed. The three-member disciplinary committee includes the president
of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Madhya-Pradesh-c809 Cricket Association Mr. Jyotiraditya Scindia besides Amin and Arun Jaitley.
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