Board of Control for Cricket in India has deferred its decision on possible sanctions against Off-Spinner Ajit Chandila and Batsman Hiken Shah until January 18. At a Disciplinary Committee meeting in Mumbai yesterday, the board also decided to give Pakistan Umpire Asad Rauf more time to submit his written statement in response to the charges leveled against him in the IPL spot-fixing case. A statement from the BCCI said that Hiken had appeared in person, made oral submission and a written reply to the findings of the enquiry against him. The three-member Disciplinary Committee, headed by President Shashank Manohar and comprising Jyotiraditya Scindia and Niranjan Shah have already questioned Chandila and Shah while third accused Rauf had been issued a notice by the panel to respond to the allegations against him. Chandila was found guilty of alleged Spot-Fixing charges, along with fellow Rajasthan Royals bowlers S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Amit Singh, by a BCCI probe in September 2013. Hiken, on the other hand, was suspended by the Board in July with immediate effect after he was found guilty of making an illegal approach to a player ahead of IPL 2015. Rauf has been charge-sheeted in the spot-fixing case, and was declared a wanted accused along with 15 bookies from Pakistan.