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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Mumbai: In response to the first show cause notice served to him for alleged financial regularities and other charges, suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi submitted a whopping 12,000-page reply through his lawyers to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquarters on Saturday.
Modi's lawyers brought in the documents in four cars and they were carried into the Cricket Centre, the BCCI's headquarters in Mumbai, in six large cartons.
The papers were received by Board Chief Administrative Officer, Ratnakar Shetty, on behalf of the BCCI.
Refusing to elaborate on the contents, Modi's lawyer Memmood S Abdi said the reply comprised of 12,000 pages.
Demanding that the show cause be dropped and Modi be reinstated to his post, Abdi said that they were preparing a second reply which could run into around 37,000 to 45,000 pages and would present even more minute details.
According to sources, Modi, who is currently in Europe, has responded to all the five primary charges made through 22 clauses against him by the BCCI.
The BCCI is now expected to decide the future course of action after consulting their own lawyers and scrutinizing the papers which can take quite some time considering their volume.
Sources said the suspended IPL chief has responded to all the charges in details and were supported with documents and brochures, which is why the response ran into thousands of pages.
Lalit Modi was suspended on April 26, by the BCCI which sent him a show cause notice asking him to reply to a slew of charges relating to his conduct in the Season 3 of the Indian Premier League.
He is accused of carrying out controversial financial deals without the knowledge of the IPL Governing Council, bid-rigging and making unclaimed profits from the electronic media deals.
On May 6, a second show cause notice was sent to Modi by the BCCI for allegedly trying to incite a parallel Twenty20 league by trying to convince English counties to revolt against their parent body, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
Modi, who who had got an extension of five days from May 10 deadline of the first show cause, is expected to reply to the second one on May 21.
The board's three-man disciplinary committee, comprising President Shashank Manohar and two vice-presidents - Arun Jaitley and Chirayu Amin, are expected to take a decision on Modi's future by mid-June.
Mumbai: In response to the first show cause notice served to him for alleged financial regularities and other charges, suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi submitted a whopping 12,000-page reply through his lawyers to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)...
Mumbai: In response to the first show cause notice served to him for alleged financial regularities and other charges, suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi submitted a whopping 12,000-page reply through his lawyers to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquarters on Saturday.
Modi's lawyers brought in the documents in four cars and they were carried into the Cricket Centre, the BCCI's headquarters in Mumbai, in six large cartons.
The papers were received by Board Chief Administrative Officer, Ratnakar Shetty, on behalf of the BCCI.
Refusing to elaborate on the contents, Modi's lawyer Memmood S Abdi said the reply comprised of 12,000 pages.
Demanding that the show cause be dropped and Modi be reinstated to his post, Abdi said that they were preparing a second reply which could run into around 37,000 to 45,000 pages and would present even more minute details.
According to sources, Modi, who is currently in Europe, has responded to all the five primary charges made through 22 clauses against him by the BCCI.
The BCCI is now expected to decide the future course of action after consulting their own lawyers and scrutinizing the papers which can take quite some time considering their volume.
Sources said the suspended IPL chief has responded to all the charges in details and were supported with documents and brochures, which is why the response ran into thousands of pages.
Lalit Modi was suspended on April 26, by the BCCI which sent him a show cause notice asking him to reply to a slew of charges relating to his conduct in the Season 3 of the Indian Premier League.
He is accused of carrying out controversial financial deals without the knowledge of the IPL Governing Council, bid-rigging and making unclaimed profits from the electronic media deals.
On May 6, a second show cause notice was sent to Modi by the BCCI for allegedly trying to incite a parallel Twenty20 league by trying to convince English counties to revolt against their parent body, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
Modi, who who had got an extension of five days from May 10 deadline of the first show cause, is expected to reply to the second one on May 21.
The board's three-man disciplinary committee, comprising President Shashank Manohar and two vice-presidents - Arun Jaitley and Chirayu Amin, are expected to take a decision on Modi's future by mid-June.
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