Life ban for Chandila in IPL-6 fixing case

New Delhi, January 18 

The BCCI on Monday slapped a life ban on Ajit Chandila, while Hiken Shah was banned for five years on charges of spot-fixing and corruption in the IPL.

The BCCI’s disciplinary committee, comprising board president Shashank Manohar, Niranjan Shah and Jyotiraditya Scindia, pronounced the punishment for the former Rajasthan Royals off-spinner Chandila and Mumbai batsman Shah.

Both the accused had appeared before the committee on December 24, 2015, and were given time till January 4 to file a written response to the charges against them.

The committee met again on January 5 when Shah appeared before it, made an oral submission and a written reply to the findings of the inquiry against him.

Chandila, who was arrested by the police for spot-fixing during the IPL matches in 2013 along with his then teammates S Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan, “is held guilty of misconduct and corruption under various articles of the BCCI Anti Corruption Code,” the BCCI said in a statement. 

“Ajit Chandila is banned for life from playing or representing cricket in any form or to be associated in any way with the activities of the board or its affiliates.” 

Sreesanth and Chavan were later handed life bans by the BCCI while Chandila was suspended from the game for the last couple of years.

Shah had made a corrupt approach to one of his colleagues in first class cricket, who was also a member of one of the IPL teams in 2015.

Meanwhile, the disciplinary committee rejected former Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf’s request for a “de novo enquiry” to be held by appointing another inquiry officer. Rauf did not appear before the committee but sent a reply stating that no fair inquiry had been conducted in his matter. — IANS