IPL gate: Lalit Modi sacked as IPL Commissioner: To appeal in the Bombay High Court or Supreme Court

It is learnt that immediately after the BCCI announced – upon completion of the finals match between Mumbai and Chennai – that Lalit Modi has been suspended and sacked (for a period of six months) by the BCCI, the Lalit Modi camp said that they would knock on the doors of the Bombay High Court and maybe even the Supreme Court of India the first thing on Monday morning. There is much drama expected on Monday morning as the Lalit Modi camp takes recourse to the courts of the land.

Sources said that even IPL CEO Sundar Raman may have his wings clipped. A three-member panel will now run the IPL as no new interim IPL Commissioner or IPL Chairman has been announced.

IPLgate: BCCI arbitrarily sacks Lalit Modi as IPL Commissioner and IPL chairman for six months for IPL scam

A four member BCCI panel that included Arun Jaitley, Shashank Manohar, Rajive Shukla and Ratnakar Shetty drafted and finalized the charge-sheet and show cause notice to Lalit Modi suspending him as IPL Commissioner and IPL Chairman for six months. He has been charged with finanical misdeeds, breach of trust and confidentiality. He has also been prevented from attending BCCI governing council meetings.

Says Flynn Remedios author of the under-publication IPL Gate and an unofficial biography on “Lalit Modi – the man we all love and hate”, “My reliable sources within the BCCI tell me that all the paper work required to suspend Lalit Modi as IPL Commissioner and issue him a show cause notice for flouting norms and impropriation is ready. The paper work was ready as of 8 pm on Sunday evening. It has merely to be delivered to Lalit Modi. The BCCI top brass is waiting for the right moment or should we say opportune moment to forward the official notice to Lalit Modi and also announce the same to the media immediately after the match is over.

This move has raised eyebrows all over proving that the BCCI is a body of emotional immature persons…

IPLgate: Lalit Modi suspended as IPL Commissioner as Chennai Super Kings trump Mumbai Indians by 22 runs?

Has the beleaguered IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi been suspended by the BCCI Board? Sources say YES. It’s just the official announcement that remains to be done.

And the official announcement came within seconds of the IPL final. Lalit Modi was sent an email by the BCCI quoting article 32 of the BCCI charter. Lalit Modi has been accused of various misdeeds and has been showcaused by the BCCI.

Says Flynn Remedios author of the under-publication IPL Gate and an unofficial biography on “Lalit Modi – the man we all love and hate”, “My reliable sources within the BCCI tell me that all the paper work required to suspend Lalit Modi as IPL Commissioner and issue him a show cause notice for flouting norms and impropriation is ready. The paper work was ready as of 8 pm on Sunday evening. It has merely to be delivered to Lalit Modi. The BCCI top brass is waiting for the right moment or should we say opportune moment to forward the official notice to Lalit Modi and also announce the same to the media. 

The BCCI President Shashank Manohar was till Sunday morning hopeful of reaching a face-saving compromise formula with Lalit Modi. Shashank Manohar wanted to avoid at all cost a direct confrontation with Lalit Modi whom everyone within the BCCI knows is a walking encyclopedia of dangerous information. If Modi opens his mouth, several heads could roll within the BCCI. Modi’s revenge would also take its toll within the government and at least two Ministers are likely to feel the heat, if not loose their chairs. 

However, Lalit Modi’s tweet saying that he would attend the BCCI governing council meeting on Monday and also chair it, pulled the rug from the BCCI’s feet. The decided to keep all the paperwork ready just in case Lalit Modi made one more wrong move. 

Meanwhile the Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians  by 22 runs becoming IPL champions 2010.