DV Subba Rao is the most sought after man right now. The BCCI inquiry commissioner in the Abhijit Kale episode, who sent his report to Jagmohan Dalmiya today, is inundated with calls from the media but is giving little away. ‘‘I am sorry if I appear rude, but I cannot tell you anything. It is a very confidential,’’ is his polite reply. ‘‘I have done my job. It is now for the BCCI to decide the next course of action,’’ Rao said. The report, prepared in just three days after Kale and the selectors deposed before him on November 29, will now be referred to the cricket board’s disciplinary committee. But Rao was not sure if the report would be made public, saying ‘if they (BCCI) chose to make it, I have no issues.’’ The next step for BCCI, according to Clause 38 (ii) of its constitution, is the formation of a disciplinary committee, which usually comprises the president, a office-bearer and an ex-Test cricketer. This committee will take up the report and call the parties concerned. Interestingly, this clause says the probe commissioner’s preliminary report cannot be viewed even by the BCCI president till the disciplinary committee is formed. The committee was to have been formed Sunday’s Emergency working committee but was not taken up with Dalmiya being empowered to take ‘any decision’. Meanwhile, Kale today filed an appeal in the Mumbai High Court challenging an order of Pune District Court upholding his suspension by the BCCI for allegedly bribing the selectors. Justice Dilip Bhosale, however, deferred his appeal until tomorrow as the report of the BCCI inquiry was awaited.
