Shortly after the Supreme Court dismissed suspended former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi’s plea seeking a stay on BCCI’s Special General Body Meeting, the Indian board slapped a life ban on him. Delhi High Court had on Tuesday revoked the stay on BCCI SGM clearing decks for the Indian board to ban Modi.

After HC overruled the earlier decision by the Patiala House Court to stayed the SGM, Modi’s counsel moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday, but it was dismissed. The SC ruled that “it’s an internal affair of a society and we are not inclided to interfere.” The SGM began soon after the SGM, following which the decision to ban Modi was announced since BCCI’s Disciplinary Committee found him guilty on various charges.

The committee has found Modi guilty of bid rigging, trying to favour two particular bidders in 2010. Modi, who is in London for the past two years, has also been found guilty on charges of arm-twisting and threatening the Kochi consortium that owned the now-defunct Kochi Tuskers Kerala franchise.

He has also been found guilty of misappropriation of funds by pocketing facilitation fees to the tune of 80 million dollars, apart from rigging the IPL Internet and broadcast rights. The self-exiled former commissioner also faces charges of trying to form a breakaway T20 league with certain English counties. Modi on Wednesday also wrote a letter to the BCCI, requesting it to adjourn the meeting. (IBN)