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No press accreditation, interviews with registered players or safe admission to to cricket products and services owned by BCCI or its member associations
Wriddhiman Saha had tweeted screenshots of messages he had obtained from Majumdar in February • BCCI
The BCCI has banned Boria Majumdar, the Kolkata-based fully journalist Wriddhiman Saha had pointed at for “menace and intimidation”, for 2 years. Majumdar is no longer going to safe press accreditation for domestic or world matches in India, interviews with any “registered players”, and safe admission to to cricket products and services owned by the BCCI or the command/member associations.
In a missive sent to its contributors, the BCCI stated that a three-member committee comprising vice-president Rajeev Shukla, treasurer Arun Dhumal and councillor Prabhtej Singh Bhatia had spoken to each and each Saha and Majumdar and concluded that Majumdar’s actions “had been certainly in the nature of menace and intimidation”. They suggested the sanctions to the BCCI’s Apex Council, which agreed and imposed the ban.
In February, Saha, who had been dropped from India’s Test personnel for the dwelling sequence against Sri Lanka, had taken to Twitter to post a screenshot of messages that a journalist had sent him on WhatsApp. The screenshot confirmed the sender soliciting for Saha “to make an interview with me”, to which Saha didn’t reply. The messages at final took a more aggressive tone: “You didn’t name. Never all every other time will I interview you. I make no longer bewitch insults kindly. And I will endure in mind this. This wasn’t something ypu [sic] shall be pleased to serene be pleased completed.”
Though Saha hadn’t named the journalist in question, Majumdar responded on March 5, asserting he would abet a correct evaluate to Saha for defamation. Majumdar, in a video he establish out on social media, stated the screenshot Saha had establish out used to be a doctored version of every other between the 2.
The BCCI, because it says in the message to the member associations, “had taken congnizance of this incident and deemed it mandatory to analyze and probe the matter to steer clear of the recurrence of such cases with varied players”, and fashioned the three-member committee. The committee subsequently “even handed the submissions” of Saha and Majumdar earlier than arriving at their possibility.