Madhavan challenges arbitrator's decision in Madras High Court

K Madhavan, the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) investigator during the match-fixing controversy, has challenged an arbitrator's decision to set aside Ajay Jadeja's five-year ban in the Madras High Court.

Madhavan contends that the decision went against the weight of evidence and the law, and cites Jadeja as first respondent, the BCCI as second respondent, and three BCCI disciplinary committee members - AC Muthiah, Kamal Morarka and K Ram Prasad - as third respondents, the Press Trust of India reported.

The petition also claims that Madhavan was prevented from "effectively presenting" his case and that evidence damaging to Jadeja was deleted from the record of the hearing. "It is ... inexplicable that the said crucial evidence simply vanished from the records," the petition said.

The arbitrator had earlier found Madhavan's report "biased, illegal and against the principles of natural justice" because he had not examined witnesses or offered them for cross-examination by Jadeja. Madhavan has insisted that Jadeja did not raise any requests for examination or cross-examination of witness, nor did he air any grievance of the procedure followed.