Following release of call recordings, Shami's wife sends copy of complaint to CoA chief

A day after India pacer Mohammed Shami's wife Hasin Jahan released the recording of an alleged phone call between the two, she sent the documents related to her complaints against her husband to the BCCI's Committee of Administrators (CoA) chairman Vinod Rai for a probe into her allegations of corruption, her lawyer said.

"We have sent the details of the complaint that was lodged at Lalbazar (Kolkata Police headquarters) and the copy of the FIR to Vinod Rai," Jahan's lawyer Zakir Hussain said.

Jahan has alleged that Shami had taken money from a Pakistani woman named Alishba on the insistence of an England-based businessman, Mohammad bhai.

In the phone call, the man, claimed to be Shami, is heard urging the woman, claimed to be Jahan, to put an end to the row for the sake of their family. The woman is heard questioning him about the allegations.

There is also a hint of money exchange being involved between the man and a Pakistani woman and another person. However, there does not seem to be anything concrete in the conversation to suggest match-fixing.

Rai has instructed the BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) chief Neeraj Kumar to look into the corruption allegations levelled against Shami by his wife. Jahan had filed a police complaint against the pacer, alleging infidelity and domestic violence, which had resulted in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) withholding Shami's central contract.

The Kolkata Police had last week booked Shami and four others under various sections of the IPC, following Jahan's complaint.

The case was lodged under sections 498A (cruelty to a woman by her husband or his relatives), 307 (attempt to murder), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison) of the Indian Penal Code.

Shami has denied all allegations, claiming it to be part of a conspiracy to malign him.

(With inputs from PTI)