The president of Indian cricket's governing body has stepped down from a panel that will probe Lalit Modi after the suspended IPL chief accused him of bias, an official said on Friday.
The president of Indian cricket's governing body has stepped down from a panel that will probe Lalit Modi after the suspended IPL chief accused him of bias, an official said on Friday.
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Shashank Manohar was due to sit on a three-man disciplinary committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that will hear allegations of corruption, indiscipline and money-laundering against Modi.
But Modi's lawyer Mehmood Abdi wrote to the BCCI demanding that Manohar should opt out of the committee because he had "reasons to believe there was some bias or prejudice against Modi."
BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan said Manohar, a lawyer by profession, had stepped down from the panel to "ensure fair play and give Modi a fair trial."
The BCCI has called a meeting in Mumbai on Saturday to nominate Manohar's replacement on the committee, which has politician-lawyer Arun Jaitley and businessman Chirayu Amin as the other members.
The BCCI, owner of the Indian Premier League, suspended Modi in April following the allegations, which also sparked a government investigation.
Modi, 46, was separately accused of planning an IPL-style league in England without the knowledge of the BCCI or the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Modi, the driving force behind the hugely popular IPL, has submitted written replies to the charges against him.
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