"There is no verdict against him (Raman). There is an enquiry going on. See when we took over, there was an enquiry against these two teams (CSK and RR) as well. We have waited for the Lodha Committee to come out with their verdict. Now once they have come out with their verdict, we categorically decided to implement it in toto. Why do you want us to hush up, rush up and say that we want to take this decision against this gentleman," Thakur said when asked why Raman was still not suspended.
"Sundar Raman is an employee of the Board and he does not have that say to be a decision maker in the Board. See, it is the IPL Governing Council which takes the decision and not the employees. It is the members who take decisions. They (employees) implement the decision which we take."
Thakur also reiterated IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla's stand that the Board would wait for working group's report before taking any further decision about possible options regarding the two suspended franchises and their players.