BCCI bans journalist Boria Majumdar for intimidating Saha

BCCI's three-part advisory group has viewed columnist Boria Majumdar to be very muchblameworthy of "danger and terrorizing" towards Wriddhiman Saha. Accordingly, Majumdar, who was named by Saha during the conference, stands restricted by BCCI's Apex Committee for a considerable length of time.

In an email to the State Associations, which was seen by Cricket, BCCI's Interim CEO Hemang Amin reported the authorizations forced on Majumdar, which thusly will deny the writer of any press license, interviews with "enrolled" players and admittance to any BCCI or state cricket for a sum of two years.

"The main points of interest for consideration for the BCCI Committee regarding this situation was to determine on the off chance that the messages sent by the columnist were in the idea of danger and terrorizing. The BCCI Committee thought about the entries by both Mr. Saha and Mr. Majumdar and reasoned that the activities by Mr. Majumdar were without a doubt in the idea of danger and terrorizing," the email read.

"The Apex Council of BCCI concurred with the proposals of the BCCI Committee and forced the accompanying assents: (I) 2 (two) year prohibition on getting any authorization as an individual from the press in any of the cricket matches (homegrown and global) in India; (ii) 2 (two) year restriction on getting any meeting with any enrolled players in India; and (iii) 2 (two) year restriction on admittance to any of BCCI and part affiliations claimed cricket."

The panel containing BCCI Vice-President Rajiv Shukla, Treasurer Arun Singh Dhumal and Apex Council Member Prabhtej Singh Bhatia was set up on February 25 after Saha has tweeted a screen capture of messages he had gotten from the columnist on Saturday (February 19), after the manager hitter was avoided with regards to India's Test crew for the impending series against Sri Lanka.