CoA issue show-cause notice to Acting Secretary Amitabh Choudhary
The Committee of Administrators has issued a show-cause notice to Acting Secretary Amitabh Choudhary for failure to attend ICC and ACC meetings earlier this year. Not only did Choudhary not attend the conference, but it is also learnt that he kept the BCCI in the dark about his unavailability.
India, and consequently the BCCI, were left unrepresented when the ICC annual conference was held between July 14 and 20 in London. The show-cause notice issued by the Supreme Court-appointed CoA mentions that they were only intimated about the development on the 12th of July.
"It has now come to the notice of the Committee of Administrators that in the last meetings of the ICC and the ACC, not only did you not attend the meetings but kept the BCCI in dark about your unavailability either until it was too late or altogether. Your aforesaid conduct left the BCCI unrepresented in the said meetings and exposed the organisation to considerable risk," the CoA said, reported Cricbuzz.
"The Committee of Administrators came to learn of your unavailability to attend the ICC Conference scheduled in London for the 14th July on 12th July when you merely forwarded your email dated 12th July 2019 to ICC, informing the ICC of your unavailability for the said meetings. The short notice did not leave any room with the Committee of Administrators to appoint a replacement to attend the said meetings in London. Consequently, the BCCI was unrepresented in the board meeting of the ICC," the CoA said.
Chaudhary repeated the same behaviour ahead of the ACC meeting, which was held on September 3 in Bangkok for which the CoA had approved of Choudhary's travel.
"Again at the eleventh hour, you failed to attend the ACC meeting, leaving the interests of the BCCI unattended. The Committee of Administrators learnt of your unavailability, and that too without knowing the reason for the absence, from the Secretary of the ACC as you had mailed to him of your unavailability to attend. Thus, the BCCI learnt from the ACC that its own representative was not attending the meeting on the morning of the meeting," the CoA notice said.
"This was most humiliating for the Committee of Administrators and the organisation. Besides the fact that in both the meetings the BCCI went unrepresented, its interests have been seriously compromised by your action,” the CoA added.
Choudhary has been given seven days to respond to the notice.
