IPL founder charged with ‘serious’ acts of indiscipline and misconduct. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
NEW DEHLI: Disgraced Indian Premier League (IPL) founder Lalit Modi was yesterday banned for life from holding any cricket post, three years after being thrown out of his own popular, but tainted, Twenty20 league.
The general body of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which met in Chennai, accepted the verdict of its disciplinary panel that found Modi guilty of ‘serious’ acts of indiscipline and misconduct.
“The BCCI resolved that Mr Lalit Modi is guilty of committing acts of serious misconduct and indiscipline, and therefore he is hereby expelled from the board,” said BCCI Secretary Sanjay Patel in a statement.
“He shall forfeit all his rights and privileges as administrator. He shall not in future be entitled to hold any position or office, or be admitted in any committee or any member or associate member of the BCCI.”
Modi was found guilty, among other things, of rigging bids during the franchise auction in 2010, selling media and internet rights without authorisation and secretly trying to create a rebel Twenty20 league in England without the knowledge of the Indian and England boards.
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Published in The Express Tribune, September 26th, 2013.
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