MUMBAI: The Indian Premier League  chairman and commissioner, Mr Lalit Modi was handed a suspension letter on Sunday night by the Board of Control for Cricket in India  so as to bar him from attending the governing council meeting on Monday.

The BCCI sent the suspension letter via email after the IPL final and the presentation ceremony were over just after Sunday midnight.
The board’s top brass made up its mind very early in the day to sack Mr Modi if he does not attend the GC meeting on Monday.
Mr Modi, however, sprang a surprise hours before the IPL final—won by Chennai Super Kings, owned by the controversial BCCI secretary Mr N Srinivasan—by himself calling the GC meeting. The agenda would be a discussion on any complaints received in writing with documentary proof from members of the GC against the chairman and any other member, he said.
Earlier in the day, he ended days of speculation and gave a new twist to the fast unfolding IPL drama by deciding to chair the meeting which he had earlier called “illegal”.
“I will attend and chair the meeting of the governing council as chairman and commissioner. I have issued the agenda to the governing council,” Mr Modi wrote on his twitter page.
The single-point agenda itself was circulated to the media within minutes of his tweet. It asked the council members to give their complaints against him in writing and backed by documentary proof.
“On the agenda, will be a discussion on any complaints received in writing from members of the governing council against the chairman, other members of the council and/or the Board of Control for Cricket in India,” Mr Modi said in a statement.
“Members of the governing council have been requested to give all such complaints in writing with the requisite supporting documents at the meeting on the morning of April 26 to the chairman and commissioner, so they can be replied in full,” he added.
The agenda chosen by Mr Modi appears to be a bid to block any discussion on serious allegations against him widely reported in the media over the past several days.
That is because, it would be near impossible for the governing council members to provide documentary support since such documents are with the income-tax and other investigative agencies.
“I have crossed bigger hurdles in my life, this will pass too. I have done nothing wrong. You are scared only if you have done something wrong. I have nothing to hide,” Mr Modi said.
As soon as the news broke out that Mr Modi would attend the meeting, there was hectic activity at the BCCI headquarters.
The extent to which Mr Modi has been marginalised can be gauged from the fact that the Champions League Twenty20, of which Mr Modi is the chairman, held a meeting without him and the entire BCCI top brass boycotted the IPL awards on Friday.
The board’s constitution empowers its disciplinary committee “to inquire into and deal with the matters relating to any act of indiscipline or misconduct or violation of any of the rules and regulations of any player, umpire, team official, administrator, selector or any other person appointed or employed by the BCCI.”
Pending an inquiry, the person would be suspended by the president from “participating in any of the affairs of the board until final adjudication”. The adjudication should be completed within six months.