Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 4: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has banned journalist Boria Majumdar for two years for threatening and bullying India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha.
After the Apex Council approved the three-member fact-finding committee’s recommendations, the ban went into effect, which included no press accreditation for any matches in India, an embargo on interviewing centrally contracted players, and no access to any of the cricket board’s and state units’ facilities.
On February 23, Saha, a centrally contracted player, tweeted a snapshot of communications in which an anonymous journalist, who happened to be Majumdar, threatened him for an interview. In his defence, the journalist claimed that Saha had ‘doctored’ the WhatsApp screenshots of their discussions before releasing them online.
To investigate Saha’s allegations, the cricket governing body created a three-person panel consisting of vice-president Rajeev Shukla, treasurer Arun Dhumal, and Apex Council member Prabhtej Bhatia. Last month, both parties went before the BCCI Apex Committee and presented their versions.
