Guwahati, Feb. 3: Assam Cricket Association (ACA) secretary Bikash Baruah, who was slapped with a lifetime ban from ACA recently, has appealed to president Gautam Roy to drop the disciplinary action initiated against him without giving him an opportunity to clarify the charges levelled against him.

In his reply to the January 3 showcause notice served by the ACA disciplinary sub-committee against which it had granted him 15 days' additional time from January 9 to reply, Baruah stated that he did not receive any cheque or communication bearing reference number BCCI/A6/2009-657 dated October 16, 2010 from the BCCI.

Baruah pointed out that he had sought information about the mode of sending the reported 61 cheques by the BCCI and a list of documents which were not seized by the police in pursuance of a Gauhati High Court directive of July 24 last year vide a communication to the disciplinary sub-committee.

The ACA, however, could not furnish the information and, instead, sent him a copy of the "seizure list" of documents which were seized by the police.

A copy of Baruah's reply, dated January 25, 2016, is available with The Telegraph. He was slapped the ban in an emergent governing body meeting of the ACA here on January 10.

In the letter, Baruah also indicated that there was the possibility of someone planting the cheques on his table in his absence to implicate him for vested interests. Baruah reminded the president and disciplinary sub-committee chairman Brajen Gohain that he was not attending office since August 1 last year and his office table was being used by other ACA office-bearers and staff.

"I would like to state that initiating the instant disciplinary proceedings without making any enquiry with the BCCI as regards the payments in respect to gross revenue share for junior players for the year 2008-2009 was paid or not, is itself an act which is premature and as such, the instant disciplinary proceedings is liable to be dropped on that count alone," Baruah wrote.

He further wrote to the president, requesting him to send his copy of the letter whereby he is banned for a lifetime from the ACA.

"If the media reports about a ban on me are true, the ACA should issue a letter to me immediately. I have written to the president requesting him to send it immediately," Baruah told The Telegraph.