Senior BCCI official Prof Ratnakar Shetty was on Tuesday banned for five years by the Mumbai Cricket Association for alleging that some MCA office bearers could have sold tickets for an India-Pakistan T20 International at Ahmedabad last year in the black market. MCA president Ravi Savant informed that the ban has been imposed for his allegations against some MCA office bearers, regarding a December 22 T20 match, which have been found untrue after the association conducted an inquiry. The ban is effective till June 2, 2018 and Prof Shetty is likely to challenge it in a court of law. Shetty is the BCCI`s General Manager, Game Development, and the Board`s office is in the same building as the MCA at the Wankhede Stadium. The committee gave Shetty additional time to listen to the video recording of the meeting and his allegations and then revert to the MCA, which he did a few days ago.