BCCI Yet to Take a Call on DK Jain's Contract Extension

BCCI ombudsman and ethics officer DK Jain is yet to get a call from the top officials for his contract extension after his one-year term ended in February this year. Justice DK Jain was appointed as Ombudsman cum Ethics Officer in February last year and now it is up to the BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah whether they would offer him an extension or not.

"It was some time back that the CEO (Rahul Johri) had verbally asked me if I would be interested in an extension and I had said yes. But after that I haven't yet heard from them. Obviously, now the situation is different due to the lockdown," Justice (retired) Jain told PTI on Wednesday. "Let BCCI come up with a formal (written) offer and I will definitely consider it."

However, he was asked if he has received any new set of complaints in recent times but he shared that since the office is closed because of the lockdown, he doesn't think there are any new cases of Conflict of Interest have come. He also shared that there are five cases still pending with him.

"If I remember correctly, there are either four or five cases pending. One of them is the Conflict of Interest case of Mayank Parikh," said Jain.

One of them about Parikh who is a former liaison officer of the Indian cricket team and one of the complaints against him was that he ran six clubs in Mumbai. Moreover, Jain's stint started with the "Koffee with Karan" controversy involving India players KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya.

He had eventually faced numerous cases of Conflicts of Interest so far in his one year tenure which also included that of former Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) members Sachin Tendulkar, Ganguly and VVS Laxman as well.

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