April 26, 2010 8:32 PM

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Chirayu Amin takes over as interim IPL Chairman

Baroda Cricket Association President Chirayu Amin was appointed the interim Chairman of the Indian Premier League in place of Lalit Modi.<br/><br/>The decision to appoint Amin was taken at the crucial meeting of the IPL Governing Council in Mumbai, which lasted close to one and a half hour. Addressing a press conference after the meeting. Our Mumbai correspondent reports that the BCCI President Shashank Manohar said, Modi, who was suspended last night would be charged on five counts.<br/><br/>As the BCCI Takes on Lalit Modi Shashank Manohar announces Lalit Modi's suspension at a packed press meet here in Mumbai. He said that Modi faces allegations and would be charged on five counts– shady initial bids of Rajasthan Royals and kings 11 Punjab, a suspect broadcast deal with Sony, bid rigging of the two new franchisees and his behavioural pattern.<br/><br/>Mr. Manohar also disclosed that the income tax and the enforcement directorate is keeping the board posted on the slush money in IPL .He also said that there is no facilitation fee document with the board .He announced that Ravi Shastri, Gavaskar and Pautadi have been appointed and to discuss and decide the modalities for IPL in the future. He disclosed that some important documents are missing and Ratnakar Shetty has been asked to source the missing documents —the IPL bidding files and the income tax papers.<br/><br/>Meanwhile the new IPL commissioner Chirayu Amin said the immediate task would be to clean up the IPL and make it transparent.<br/><br/>Mr Manohar said, for all the allegations against Modi, if he manages to convince the Board of his innocence, the inquiry proceedings against him would be dropped. He said, the Governing Council was not even aware of Modi's modus operandi and claimed that the most public faces of Rajasthan Royals, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and her businessman husband Raj Kundra, don't even figure in the shareholding papers.<br/><br/>Asked whether the Board was worried about Modi's threats of exposing other BCCI office-bearers, Manohar said, the BCCI is not worried and if there are other guilty persons, the Board will sack them and take the same action.

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