BCCI working on an honourable exit for Modi

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Arun Jaitley is likely to head a BCCI inquiry committee into the IPL controversy and Lalit Modi's role.

New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is working out an honourable exit route for Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi.

Sources say the plan is to make BCCI President Shashank Manohar as the new IPL Chairperson while Delhi & District Cricket Association President Arun Jaitley is likely to head a BCCI inquiry committee into the IPL row.

Modi will be brought back into the IPL Governing Council if cleared by the BCCI inquiry committee. Sources say new members may also be drafted into the Governing Council and a professional CEO will be brought in to head the IPL executive functions.

Modi is likely to face the Income Tax officials on Friday. The BCCI has been reportedly putting pressure on Modi to answer the 10 questions posed by the Income Tax department to the cricket board.

Meanwhile, an FIR has been registered against Modi's bodyguard at the Sahar police station for misbehaving with media persons at the Mumbai Airport on Tuesday. The FIR has been registered under Indian Penal Code Sections 160, 504 & 506.

The bodyguard had got into a scuffle with some media persons, who were waiting for the IPL chief who was coming from Dubai, whom he tried to push aside.

Modi is already losing the support of his powerful friends. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, who had been backing Modi, has hinted that the IPL chief must step down. Pawar and BCCI President Shashank Manohar met in New Delhi on Tuesday with just one point on the agenda about future of Modi.

While Manohar said that the IPL Governing Council would be taking the decision, Pawar maintained that neither he nor Manohar would go against the members' choice. But behind closed doors, there has been complete unanimity that Modi must go. Manohar has the support of important BCCI members such as N Srinivasan, Arun Jaitley and Rajiv Shukla as they look to boot him out immediately.

Sources have also told CNN-IBN that the franchises will toes the BCCI lines and abide by its decision on the new IPL chief. IPL team owners have refutes reports of going against Manohar on BCCI's decision with regard to the new IPL chief.