BCCI informs items about Boria Majumdar’s two-year ban for intimidating Wriddhiman Saha

The BCCI has banned journalist Boria Majumdar for 2 years for “threatening and intimidating” India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha. The ban, which incorporates not getting press accreditation for any matches in India, an embargo on interviewing centrally contracted gamers and no entry to any of the cricket board’s and state items’ amenities, has been made efficient after the Apex Council rubber-stamped the three-member fact-finding committee’s suggestions.

The Indian Express completely reported on April 23 that the BCCI was set to ban Majumdar after its three-member committee comprising the cricket board’s vice-president Rajiv Shukla, treasurer Arun Dhumal and the BCCI Apex Council member Prabhtej Singh Bhatia discovered him responsible of “bullying” Saha. As reported by this paper, a communication could be despatched to the ICC additionally, that they ban the journalist for international occasions.

On Wednesday, the BCCI’s interim CEO Hemang Amin wrote to all of the member items, The Indian Express has accessed the letter, informing them in regards to the punishment meted out to the journalist and requesting for compliance.

“The BCCI Committee considered the submissions by both Mr Saha and Mr Majumdar and concluded that the actions by Mr Majumdar were indeed in the nature of threat and intimidation. The BCCI Committee recommended the following sanctions to the Apex Council of BCCI. The Apex Council of BCCI agreed with the recommendations of the BCCI Committee and imposed the following sanctions: i. 2 (two) year ban on getting any accreditation as a member of the press in any of the cricket matches (domestic and international) in India; ii. 2 (two) year ban on getting any interview with any registered players in India; and iii. 2 (two) year ban on access to any of BCCI and members associations owned cricket facilities.”

After all of my contributions to Indian cricket..that is what I face from a so known as “Respected” journalist! This is the place the journalism has gone. pic.twitter.com/woVyq1sOZX

— Wriddhiman Saha (@Wriddhipops) February 19, 2022

The probe committee was constituted “to look into the matter of Wriddhiman Saha receiving threats and intimidation from a senior journalist”. It got here on the heels of the 37-year-old wicketkeeper posting a tweet on February 19 that captured a screenshot of the messages like: “After all of my contributions to Indian cricket..this is what I face from a so called “Respected” journalist! This is the place the journalism has gone.” Another message purportedly despatched by the journalist had mentioned: “You did not call. Never again will I interview you. I don’t take insults kindly. And I will remember this.”

This was after Saha was dropped from the Test crew for the house collection towards Sri Lanka. Lots of former cricketers, together with ex-Indian crew head coach Ravi Shastri, sympathised with Saha, however the wicketkeeper refused to call the journalist in public. However, he revealed the id of the individual, Boria Majumdar, on the listening to.

Majumdar had earlier informed this paper that he would file a defamation swimsuit towards Saha. “I’m filing a defamation case on Wriddhiman Saha. He has doctored, tampered and manipulated screenshots. Earlier today, I have sent the BCCI all the details and I have emailed everybody in the BCCI the entire sequence of events. I have also tweeted my side of the story,” Majumdar had mentioned.

In his assertion to the BCCI, the journalist had claimed that Saha’s supervisor visited his residence on February 1 and arrange “two interviews as a brand building exercise”. On February 10, forward of the IPL mega public sale, Majumdar had despatched some texts to the participant by way of WhatsApp. A collection of texts was despatched on February 13 additionally after Saha was roped in by Gujarat Titans on the second day of the IPL public sale. The journalist’s assertion gave particulars of his WhatsApp texts to Saha, claiming that the latter had “confirmed an interview over Zoom”. As per the assertion, the context of the texts was “the disappointment over failure of Mr. Saha to comply with his professional commitment and hence was an expression of dismay by Mr. Majumdar”. The journalist had denied any threats or hostile motion.