**Indian cricket officials have given suspended chairman of the Indian Premier League Lalit Modi more time to respond to corruption allegations.**Officials are investigating irregularities in broadcasting rights and claims that bids for team franchises were rigged.
Mr Modi, who founded the competition, has denied any wrongdoing.
Officials have agreed to Mr Modi’s request and extended Monday’s deadline to Saturday.
The IPL started in 2008 and has become a multi-billion dollar industry.
Mr Modi was suspended as its chief nearly two weeks ago.
The main accusations against him related to the initial bids for the Rajasthan and Punjab team franchises and alleged bid rigging for two new franchises that will start next year.
He also faces probes into the sale of broadcasting and internet rights.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has said that if Mr Modi’s reply convinces the members, proceedings will be dropped.
The BCCI has named Chirayu Amin, an industrialist and head of the Baroda Cricket Association, as interim chairman.
It said a number of documents were missing from the IPL office which tax officials had been asking for.
This is the worst crisis to hit Indian cricket since a match-fixing scandal involving senior national players in 2000.
The crisis erupted after Mr Modi revealed on his Twitter account that a female friend of Shashi Tharoor, a junior government minister, had invested in a consortium awarded a new IPL franchise in Kochi.
That revelation caused a storm which sparked Mr Tharoor’s resignation and also led to government investigations into the teams, sponsors, broadcasters and event managers associated with the IPL.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
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