The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) divided opinion last week when it decided to withhold Mohammed Shami’s central contract. The decision was made after the pacer's wife levied a series of allegations against him.
While many lauded the board for setting the right example, there were a few who argued that Shami was undone as none of the allegations made were proven yet.
As it turns out, the decision to withhold Shami's contract wasn't a unanimous one either. According to a report by The Times of India, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) and certain state association members were not in favour of going against Shami. Among them was a cricketer-turned-administrator who was strongly in favour of the troubled fast-bowler.
“Less than 30 cricketers from a pool of hundreds are privileged to earn an India contract. In such a small group, if there’s a cricketer who is being accused by his wife of adultery and there are other serious allegations, what message is the BCCI sending to society in general,” the daily's source was quoted as saying. “If not for the fixing allegations made by his wife, the opposition would’ve continued. The board was almost on the verge of a huge blunder.”
Meanwhile, Shami's wife Hasin Jahan has sent the documents related to her complaints against her husband to CoA chairman Vinod Rai for a probe into her allegations of corruption, her lawyer said on Thursday.
"We have sent the details of the complaint that was lodged at Lalbazar (Kolkata Police headquarters) and the copy of the FIR to Vinod Rai," Jahan's lawyer Zakir Hussain said.
Jahan has alleged that Shami had taken money from a Pakistani woman named Alishba on the insistence of an England-based businessman, Mohammad Bhai. Rai has instructed the BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) chief Neeraj Kumar to look into the corruption allegations levelled against Shami by his wife.
Jahan had filed a police complaint against the pacer, alleging infidelity and domestic violence, which had resulted in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) withholding Shami's central contract. The Kolkata Police had last week booked Shami and four others under various sections of the IPC, following Jahan's complaint.
The case was lodged under sections 498A (cruelty to a woman by her husband or his relatives), 307 (attempt to murder), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison) of the Indian Penal Code.
(Inputs from PTI)
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