In its 134-page inquiry report, the disciplinary committee comprising senior vice-president Arun Jaitley and Jyotiraditya Scindia had detailed the alleged irregularities that Modi committed from the time the IPL's governing council approved the draft of the Invitiation to Tender (ITT) in December 2009 -- for adding two more teams to the league - to Modi's eventual suspension in April 2010.
In fact, it was the introduction of the Kochi franchise that hit Modi badly. The case of Kochi constituted three of the eleven charges pressed against him, including rigging bids, arm-twisting franchises and bringing the BCCI into disrepute through his comments on Twitter.