BCCI President Shashank Manohar today launched a scathing attack on Lalit Modi, accusing him of tarnishing the image of the Cricket Board. He claimed that Modi is making misleading allegations that interim IPL Chairman Chirayu Amin was part ofa failed bid for the Pune franchise. Manohar said it was in fact the suspended IPL Commissioner who had advised a Pune consortium to rope in Amin as an invstor and the interim IPL chief agreed to invest only after the bid succeeded and he had sought the Board'spermission. He also claimed that contrary to Modi's assertions, the IPL Governing Council did not know that City Corporation's Managing Director Aniruddha Deshpande bid for the Pune team in his individual capacity. Manohar said when the bidders approached Amin to join their consortium, the interim IPL chief agreed to make an investment of upto 10 per cent only if the bid was won and he got BCCI's permission.The Pune bid, which was ultimately won by the Saharagroup, has snowballed into a major controversy involvingformer BCCI chief and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar andhis Parliamentarian daughter Supriya Sule. The Pawar family has 16 per cent equity in City Corporation but they claim that Deshpande bid for the Pune team on his own and the company's Board was against the move even though it allowed him to use the company's name on bid documents. But Manohar said had the IPL Governing Council known that Deshpande was bidding in his individual capacity, the bid would have been outrightly rejected.