Modi gets five days to file reply

The BCCI decision came after Modi sought some documents from the Board to prepare his reply,though he was supposed to respond to the chargesheet by today. Lalit Modi has requested the Board president (Shashank Manohar) and secretary (N Srinivasan) to extend time. He was supposed to reply to the show cause notice today. The Board has taken a decision to extend time up to the 15th of May, BCCI chief administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty told reporters.

Shettys announcement came soon after Modis lawyer Memmood S Abdi handed over the remaining documents pertaining to the IPL. Shetty did not reveal the nature of documents handed over by Abdi. All this is between the Board and Modi. I dont think we need to share it with the media, he said.

Abdi told reporters he had handed over the remaining documents that were with Modi,including minutes of IPL Governing Council meetings,bid documents,franchisee agreements and all contracts starting from 2008 onwards.

This is the final phase of handing over of papers to the Board from our side. We had earlier submitted a bigger bulk of papers on the 8th May, Abdi said.