Indian journalist Boria Majumdar has been handed a two-year ban by the Board of Management for Cricket (BCCI) after being adjudged responsible by the board’s three-member committee (together with BCCI Vice-President Rajiv Shukla, Treasurer Arun Singh Dhumal and Apex Council Member Prabhtej Singh Bhatia) in Wriddhiman Saha menace episode.
“We will probably be informing all state models of the Indian cricket board to not enable him inside stadiums. He gained’t be given media accreditation for dwelling matches and we may even be writing to ICC to blacklist him. Gamers will probably be requested to not interact with him,” a high BCCI official earlier quoted, in response to a report by Indian Specific.
In February, Saha, a centrally contracted performed by the BCCI, had tweeted a screenshot of a message obtained by a “revered” journalist on WhatsApp after he was dropped from the Indian Check group for the house sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka. Within the screenshot, the journalist in query had requested him for an interview, to which Saha didn’t reply.
“You didn’t name. By no means once more will I interview you. I don’t take insults kindly. And I’ll keep in mind this. This wasn’t one thing ypu ought to have finished,” learn the next messages from the journalist {that a} upset Saha took to Twitter to disclose. “In spite of everything of my contributions to Indian cricket..that is what I face from a so referred to as “Revered” journalist! That is the place the journalism has gone,” Saha had written on Twitter.
Within the aftermath of the mentioned incident, a number of former cricketers together with Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan, Ravi Shastri amongst others, in addition to the Indian Cricket Affiliation, stood in solidarity with Saha, persuading him to disclose the journalist’s title earlier than the BCCI determined to represent a three-member committee to analyze the matter.
Later, Majumdar mentioned that he’ll sue Saha for defamation, alleging that the cricketer intentionally tampered with the chats and tarnished his popularity. Nonetheless, because it stands, the BCCI committee adjudged him responsible, ruling that his motion “had been certainly within the nature of menace and intimidation”.
In a letter directed to its members, BCCI’s interim CEO and IPL COO Hemang Amin wrote: “Expensive all, as you might bear in mind, Mr Wriddhiman Saha had shared screenshots of messages despatched by a journalist on social media platform, Twitter, whereby he acknowledged that he felt bullied by the conduct of the mentioned journalist. Mr Saha within the listening to named Mr Boria Majumdar because the journalist.
“The BCCI had taken cognizance of this incident and deemed it needed to analyze and probe the matter to keep away from the recurrence of such situations with different gamers. On this regard, the BCCI fashioned a committee comprising Rajiv Shukla, vice-president BCCI, Arun Dhumal, treasurer, BCCI and Prabhtej Singh Bhatia, Councillor, BCCI.
“The BCCI committee thought of the submissions by each Saha and Majumdar and concluded that the actions by Mr Majumdar had been certainly within the nature of menace and intimidation. The BCCI committee really helpful the next sanctions to the Apex Council of BCCI.
i) 2 12 months ban on getting any accreditation as a member of the press in any of the cricket matches (home and worldwide) in India;
ii) 2 12 months ban on getting any interview with any registered gamers in India; and
iii) 2 12 months ban on entry to any of the BCCI and members associations-owned cricket services.
