Suspended IPL chief dismisses all charges, accuses BCCI president, secretary of misusing office
LALIT Modi responded to the showcause notice served to him by the BCCI with a voluminous reply -bulked up by 15,000 pages of sup porting documents -car ried into the cricket board's headquarters via six large cartons transported by four cars on Saturday. BCCI chief administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty received the papers, reportedly spanning all e-mail correspondence between Modi and the BCCI, bid documents, franchisee agreements, media rights, licensee and sponsorship deals. In his reply, the suspended IPL chairman is believed to have not only denied all the charges levelled against him by the BCCI, but also accused BCCI
president Sashank Manohar and secretary N Srinivasan of misusing their positions of power. “The reply addresses all allegations,” said Modi’s lawyer Mehmood Abdi. “The BCCI notice was 35 pages, our reply is 160 pages.” Modi, added Abdi, wants the BCCI to “revoke its showcause notice and reinstate him as IPL commissioner.” The primary IPL-related charges against Modi are to do
with the initial bids of Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab, the broadcasting deal, bid-rigging of the two new franchises, Internet rights, and his behavioural pattern. A three-member BCCI disciplinary committee — comprising Manohar, Arun Jaitley and Chirayu Amin — will examine Modi’s response and take a decision on the issue after a meeting expected to be held in mid-June.
Heavyweight response "The reply is, by my last count, around 15,000 pages, the team may have added more. When anyone is falsely accused, it is there duty to respond." -LALIT MODI ON TWITTER Next: 45,000 pages "We reserve the right to produce another voluminous set of papers which may run into 37,000-45,000 pages. It will have the trail of e-mail of the institutions and authorities who matter, if required."
-MEHMOOD ABDI, LALIT MODI'S LAWYER
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