BCCI expels former IPL chief Lalit Modi for life

Shortly after the Supreme Court dismissed suspended former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi's plea seeking a stay on BCCI's Special General Meeting (SGM), the Indian board slapped a life ban on him.

Delhi High Court had on Tuesday revoked the stay on BCCI SGM clearing decks for the Indian board to ban Modi. After HC overruled the earlier decision by the Patiala House Court to stay the SGM, Modi's counsel moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday, but it was dismissed.

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The SC ruled that "it's an internal affair of a society and we are not inclined to interfere." The SGM began soon after, where the decision to ban Modi was announced since BCCI's Disciplinary Committee found him guilty on various charges.

"The BCCI, at its Special General Meeting, held at Park Sheraton, Chennai, today, considered and discussed the report of the Disciplinary Committee of the BCCI on the Show Cause Notices issued to Mr. Lalit Kumar Modi, in accordance with Clause 32 (iv) of the Memorandum of Rules and Regulations, as well as the documents referred to by Mr. Modi, in his letter dated 24 September 2013, to the Honorary Secretary, BCCI, and passed the following resolution unanimously: "Resolved that Mr. Lalit Modi is guilty of committing acts of serious misconduct and indiscipline, and therefore, in exercise of powers as per Regulation 32 of the Memorandum and Rules and Regulations of the Board, Mr. Lalit Modi be and is hereby expelled from the BCCI. 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 Board," the BCCI said in a press release.

Reacting to the resolution passed by the BCCI, Modi's lawyer Mehmood Abdi said: "Lalit Modi's expulsion from BCCI is unfair. This meeting [SGM] is not right. It has not been called by the authorised people. We had taken this matter to the SC, but they have not given us any relief.

"Lalit Modi is not hiding from anyone. He fears for his life in India; that is the reason why he is not coming here," the lawyer said. The committee, CNN-IBN learnt, has found Modi guilty of bid rigging, trying to favour two particular bidders in 2010. Modi, who is in London for the past two years, has also been found guilty on charges of arm-twisting and threatening the Kochi consortium that owned the now-defunct Kochi Tuskers Kerala franchise.

He has also been found guilty of misappropriation of funds by pocketing facilitation fees to the tune of 80 million dollars, apart from rigging the IPL Internet and broadcast rights. The self-exiled former commissioner has also been charged with forming a breakaway T20 league with certain English counties. Modi on Wednesday also wrote a letter to the BCCI, requesting it to adjourn the SGM.