Boria Majumdar banned for 2 years; BCCI conveys decision about journalist to state associations

The
call
to
ban
Boria
Majumdar
was
taken
at
the
BCCI
Apex
Council
Meeting
a
couple
of
weeks
back
and
now
it
has
been
officially
conveyed
to
the
state
associations
via
a
letter.

“As
you
may
be
aware,
Mr
Wriddhiman
Saha
had
shared
screenshots
of
messages
sent
by
a
journalist
on
social
media
platform,
Twitter,
wherein
he
stated
that
he
felt
bullied
by
the
conduct
of
the
said
journalist.
Mr
Saha
in
the
hearing
named
Mr
Boria
Majumdar
as
the
journalist,”
Hemang
Amin,
CEO
and
COO
of
the
IPL,
wrote
in
a
email
to
the
members
of
the
BCCI.

“The
BCCI
had
taken
cognizance
of
this
incident
and
deemed
it
necessary
to
investigate
and
probe
the
matter
to
avoid
the
recurrence
of
such
instances
with
other
players,”
he
added.

Boria
will
also
banned
from
taking
interviews
of
domestic
and
international
cricketers
in
this
period
and
he
will
not
be
granted
access
inside
any
state
associations
or
BCCI
facilities.

All
the
floodgates
were
open
when
Saha
tweeted
the
screenshots
of
his
chat
with
a
“respected
journalist”
alleging
that
the
latter
was
intimidating
him
to
get
an
interview.

Several
former
cricketers
like
Venkatesh
Prasad,
Irfan
Pathan,
Virender
Sehwag
and
Harbhajan
Singh
etc
came
in
support
of
Saha
and
asked
to
take
steps
against
the
journalist.

Later
the
BCCI
constituted
a
three-member
panel
to
investigate
the
issue
and
Rajiv
Shukla,
the
BCCI
vice-president,
Arun
Dhumal,
the
BCCI
treasurer,
and
apex
council
members
Prabhtej
Singh
Bhatia,
had
a
talk
with
both
Saha
and
Boria
before
submitting
their
report
to
the
BCCI.

The
whole
incident
exploded
on
social
media
after
Saha
tweeted
about
after
he
was
not
picked
in
the
India
squad
for
the
home
series
against
Sri
Lanka
in
February.