The Board of Control for Cricket in India​ (BCCI) has decided to offer a Grade ‘B’ annual retainership contract to Mohammed Shami. The contract has been put on hold after Shami was accused of match-fixing, domestic abuse and cheating by wife Hasin Jahan. 

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BCCI has also decided that there will be no charges of match fixing against Shami. The clean chit to Shami came after BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) submitted its report sying there was no further action required against Shami under the BCCI anti-corruption code.

The BCCI Committee of Administrators (CoA) appointed by Supreme Court of India had requested Neeraj Kumar, former Police Commissioner of Delhi and Head of BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit, to investigate the allegations against Shami. 

The CoA, led by Vinod Rai, had given a seven-day deadline to Kumar to submit the report on the issue. Though, Jahan had later retracted the match fixing allegation, the CoA had taken note of it and asked the ACU to investigate the matter.

A BCCI statement said that Kumar had submitted his confidential report to the CoA. 

"Based on the conclusions in the said report, the CoA is of the view that no further actions/ proceedings under the BCCI anti-corruption code are warranted in the matter," the release said.

BCCI shall proceed with offering a Grade ‘B’ annual retainership contract to Shami.

Earlier, a case was registered against Shami on the basis of a written complaint filed by his wife, who has claimed that Shami has been having extra-marital affairs and abusing her physically and mentally.

In a series of claims made by her last week, Jahan, for once, had also alleged that Shami could be involved in match-fixing.

However, Shami had rejected all the allegations and said that someone was misleading his wife.