BCCI and the art of facile investigations

Prem Panicker, in his column for Yahoo! cricket, writes about the farce of BCCI's internal investigations. Panicker says that the straitjacketed guidelines that the BCCI sets for internal investigations often end up rendering the whole exercise redundant.

When the stench of corruption - in the selection of players, in the performance of those players, whatever - becomes too noisome to be conveniently ignored, it appoints a committee of inquiry. It then laces that committee into a straitjacket by defining the 'terms of reference' so narrowly that no evidence of probative value can be considered.