Modi Questions Authenticity of BCCI’s ‘Reliable Source’

Questioning the authenticity of the source used by the BCCI to press charges against him, suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has said that the board’s reluctance to divulge the identity of the alleged source is illegal and unjustified, said media reports.

Raising apprehensions about the reliable source in a letter to BCCI on Wednesday, Modi said that it was nothing more than fiction and asked the board to take off this oral communication from the proceedings, reports said.

“You have declined to name the alleged ‘reliable source’ who allegedly orally communicated with the BCCI. This confirms my apprehension that there is no ‘reliable source’ and this is all fiction and the ‘privilege and confidential’ claim made is only to cover this up,” Modi said in his letter.

“Assuming (whilst denying) that this phantom ‘reliable source’ exists, the withholding of the name of the alleged ‘reliable source’, for the reasons stated, is illegal and unjustified. This is also manifestly unfair.

“I cannot respond to the ‘unknown’ nor be condemned on the basis thereof. This alleged oral communication from the alleged ‘reliable source’ is required to be wholly excluded from consideration in these proceedings. Please confirm the same,” Modi wrote in the letter according to ‘Times Now’.

It may be mentioned that Modi had received four documentary ‘proofs’ of his alleged wrongdoings out of the 10 charges pressed against him by the BCCI.

The board, however, said that it was not able to provide evidence for the rest of the six, for they were of verbal nature.

In an email to Modi, BCCI secretary N Srinivasan had said that other references made in the show cause notice for which we wanted documentary support were oral transactions or verbal communications and there was no documentary proof for those.

(Based on internet reports)