Mumbai: The BCCI has convened a special general body meeting (SGM) on September 25, which may decide to slap a lifetime ban on former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, presently in London and unwilling to return to India.
The SGM will take up for discussion a special disciplinary committee's report on his "individual transgressions" as IPL commissioner.
The former IPL chairman and commissioner is likely to be barred for life", sources said
The disciplinary committee comprising Arun Jaitley, Chirayu Amin and Jyotiraditya Scindia, has submitted a 500-odd page report in July after a long-drawn probe.
BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said, drastic punishment would be meted out to Lalit Modi.
"The Board may also move the court on the basis of the committee report", Patel said.
"A decision will be taken at the SGM on Sept 25. But it's certain that Modi would be de-linked from the BCCI just to save ourselves because the pressure from Enforcement Directorate (ED) and other tax agencies on the Board is immense," the source admitted.
"With Modi living abroad, the pressure is on us, and we have to show and prove to the agencies that all the misdeeds were done entirely by him only. Some of the BCCI officials have already said this before the ED and other tax agencies, and before the Yashwant Sinha Standing Committee of Lok Sabha in 2011," he pointed out.
Interestingly, Modi is currently fighting several court cases related to the IPL.
The disciplinary committee, which initially had the then Board president Shashank Manohar before he recused himself following an objection by Modi, started the probe in July 2010 and held around 80 sittings in all. Scindia replaced Manohar.
Amongst the questions that ED has asked of him is about the $50 million that were transferred by the BCCI/IPL to a bank account in South Africa, opened by BCCI and the IPL governing council, before the 2009 IPL was played there.
Modi's constituted attorney Mehmood M. Abdi, who has been handling his IPLrelated cases, has termed "bizarre" the BCCI decision of not allowing the defence to complete its submissions.
