Calcutta: Neeraj Kumar, a former police commissioner of Delhi, has consented to resume his association with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), but it's not clear whether he'll be based in Mumbai, where the 90-year-old organisation is headquartered.

Kumar's comeback, as head of the BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), is yet another chapter in the rather mean face-off between the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators and office-bearers Chandra Kishore Khanna, Amitabh Choudhary and Anirudh Chaudhry who represent the affiliated units.

The specific decision to again have Kumar on board was taken during the BCCI's SGM on Friday. It has led to an unprecedented situation as Ajit Singh, a former DGP of Rajasthan, has already assumed charge as head of the ACU.

Kumar was on extension, as an adviser to the BCCI, till May 31.

The official reason for the end of Kumar's innings as the ACU head, on March 31, was that he'd turned 65 (the same excuse for not giving Prof. Ratnakar Shetty, a much-respected GM, one more extension), when the fact is he turns 65 next month!

According to well-placed sources of The Telegraph, the "real reason" for Kumar's 'ouster' was his tiff with BCCI CEO Rahul Johri.

Johri is known to be close to the Administrators, especially chairman Vinod Rai, and it's the latter who'd approved Singh's appointment.

The charge placed at Rai's door is that he "violated established practice," steered away from transparency and "acted in haste."

Diana Edulji, by the way, is the other Administrator.

What's odd, of course, is that the letter relieving Kumar of his duties was apparently signed by Amitabh, acting secretary of the BCCI.

Odd because Amitabh refused to ink Singh's letter of appointment (Johri signed) and, clearly, pushed for Kumar's recall. Amitabh too has been an IPS officer.

The drama, therefore, features three individuals who have served in the IPS: Kumar, Singh, Amitabh. Also deeply involved is Rai, from the IAS cadre.

Traditionally, an inter-services rivalry has been a reality, but in this instance, a former IAS officer and a one-time IPS top gun are on the same page with two former IPS officers on the other side!

Rai recognises Singh, while Amitabh won't look beyond Kumar.

The divide is massive and it's an all-out war for rich turf.

Where Kumar would be based is critical as Singh sits in Mumbai. As for Kumar, when he headed the ACU the first time, he was based in Delhi but "often" went to the BCCI HQ.

Kumar, one learns, won't resume his functions in the "immediate future." Perhaps, he'll again operate out of Delhi, averting a showdown of sorts with Singh.

One of the well-placed sources had this to say: "The CoA is free to be advised by Singh. Where the BCCI is concerned, Kumar is back as the head of the ACU. As with the other decisions at the SGM, the affiliated units acted unanimously."

But what if the Supreme Court rules that the SGM didn't have the Administrators' sanction and, so, no decision holds good?

Rai and Edulji surely won't take the BCCI affiliates' and office-bearers' defiance lying down.