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โ€œBCCI Secretary Jay Shah To Take Decision On Chetan Sharmaโ€™s Futureโ€: Reports

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Chetan Sharma, the chairman of selectors for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), was the subject of a significant scandal on Tuesday (February 14) after it was claimed that he divulged secret selection procedures in the course of a sting operation, reported Cricktracker. 

Sharma, who was recently re-elected as the chair by the BCCI following his removal after Indiaโ€™s performance at the T20 World Cup in Australia in 2022, was observed during the sting operation casting doubt on former India skipper Virat Kohli and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah.

During the sting operation by Zee News, Sharma is also said to have disclosed his private conversations with head coach Rahul Dravid and Kohli. National selectors are reportedly under investigation by the BCCI since their contracts forbid them from addressing the media. It is now learned that a decision on Chetan Sharmaโ€™s future will soon be taken by BCCI secretary Jay Shah.

โ€œIt will be (BCCI secretary) Jayโ€™s (Shah) call as to what will be Chetanโ€™s future. The question is whether T20 skipper Hardik Pandya or ODI and Test captain Rohit Sharma would like to sit with Chetan in a selection meeting knowing that he has let out internal discussions,โ€ a senior BCCI official was quoted as saying by Zee.

Chetan Sharma claimed that despite being 80% to 85% fit to play, several players use injections to hasten their comeback to competitive cricket. The former India fast bowler also claimed that he and the team management disagreed on whether Bumrah should play in the T20I series against Australia, that took place in September 2022 before the T20 World Cup, after recovering from a stress fracture.

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Bumrah is currently sidelined and is expected to sit out the remainder of the four-match Border-Gavaskar series as well as the ensuing three-match ODI series. Chetan Sharma also alleged that there was an ego clash between former India skipper Kohli and former BCCI President Sourav Ganguly.

โ€œVirat Kohli felt he lost the captaincy because of BCCI President. There were 9 people in the selection committee video conference, Ganguly may have told him โ€˜think about it onceโ€™. I think Kohli didnโ€™t hear it, there were 9 others there including myself and all other selectors, BCCI officials โ€“ Kohli might not have heard him,โ€ Sharma was heard saying.

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Amritpal Singh Still On The Run: Centre Asks BSF, SSB To Be Alert At Border Posts

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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked the chiefs of the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) to be alert in the border areas as there is a possibility that Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh Sandhu might cross over the International Border in Punjab or via the India-Nepal border, reported Indian Express.

An officer said a message has been sent to all units of the BSF and SSB along with two pictures of Amritpal โ€“ with and without his turban. โ€œIt is reliably learned that Amritpal Singh, the chief of a pro-Khalistan outfit, has been declared a fugitive by Punjab Police.

There is a possibility that he crossed the India-Nepal border or International Border in Punjab. They have been asked to be alert and to sensitize all personnel deployed in the border posts,โ€ an officer said.

The police had planned to arrest Amritpal at Mehatpur on the Jalandhar-Moga Road on Saturday. He, however, managed to escape and sources said he left his vehicle and mobile phone near Nakodar.

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In a statewide crackdown, the police nabbed 78 of his associates Saturday. The hunt for Amritpal continued for the second day with district police chiefs carrying out flag marches in major towns in Punjab and the state government extending internet suspension till Monday noon.

The Punjab Police booked Amritpal and seven of his associates under the Arms Act Sunday after they claimed to have recovered six 12-bore rifles and 196 cartridges. Amritsar (Rural) SSP Satinder Singh said over 100 illegal cartridges were seized from an associate of Amritpal. Later, the seven persons arrested from his team were sent to police custody till March 23.

According to Officials in intelligence agencies,  Amritpal had gone to Dubai in 2012 to work as a truck driver in his family transport business. Around the time, he also came in contact with Jaswant Singh Rode, brother of Pakistan-based proscribed Khalistani operative Lakhbir Singh Rode, and militant Paramjit Singh Pamma. It is suspected that they put him through to the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) which offered him money to revive Khalistan sentiments in Punjab.
โ€œAvtar Singh Khanda (UK-based SAD-Amritsar activist and close associate of Khalistani terrorist Jagtar Singh Tara) is the main handler of Amritpal Singh and the brain behind his meteoric rise. Khanda is also close to Pamma and is known for holding theoretical radical training classes for Sikh youth,โ€ a security establishment official said.

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