The BCCI has slapped a life ban on pacer T P Sudhindra and handed lighter punishments to four other players who were exposed in a TV sting operation. Shalabh Srivastava was banned for five years and Mohnish Mishra, Amit Yadav and Abhinav Bali for a year each.Cracking the whip on domestic cricketers caught in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, the Board said in a statement in Mumbai on Saturday that the decipinary Committee held that the 28-year-old Sudhindra Sudhindra guilty of actually receiving a consideration to spot-fix in a domestic cricket match, and hence imposed exemplary penalty on him.The statement said Sudhindra has been debarred for life, from playing any cricket matches conducted or authorised by the ICC or BCCI, or any affiliated unit of the BCCI.It also said Sudhindra will not be entitled to the monthly gratis, benevolent fund, benefit match or any other facility offered to players by the BCCI. He also cannot hold any position in any cricket association affiliated to the BCCI for life.BCCI announced the punishment following the decision taken by its disciplinary committee on the charges. The committee was headed by President N Srinivasan.