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Charges against Bhajji can't be dropped now: ICC

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Posted online: Monday , January 14, 2008 at 1635 hrs IST

New Delhi, January 14: : While Brad Hogg is celebrating after India withdrew charges against him, Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh stands no such chance even if Australia wants to reciprocate to India's goodwill gesture.

Even if Australia suddenly has a change of heart and decides to withdraw racism charges that earned the spinner a three-match ban from the Match Referee, it's too late, according to laws of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

According to a source in the ICC, once the Appeals Commissioner is appointed, the process would complete its full course, even if the complainant wants to drop the charges.

"In Hogg's case, the charges of abusing the Indian players were laid by their administrative manager Chetan Chauhan, who later withdrew it," he said.

"But in Harbhajan's case, the charges were brought by both the on-field umpires, after which ICC has already appointed John Hansen as the Appeals Commissioner. The process would go the full distance in this case", the source said.

Harbhajan was slapped with a three-match ban by Match Referee Mike Proctor who found the Indian off-spinner guilty of racially abusing Australia's Andrew Symonds during the ill-tempered second Test in Sydney.

Harbhajan has decided to appeal against the ruling but the ICC has still not fixed a date for the hearing.

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racism
by indian on 2008-01-16 22:16:44.396498+05:30
24th November 2007, Assam, India.what happened ?nothing... ? one person died ? .....sheeeh sheeh...nothing happened.....Biggest democratic nation in the world ?India who boast herself as the biggest democracy in the world should look into the scenes and pictures flashed across the nation of crowd stripping and chasing an adivaasi woman in Assam.Now, videos also showed adivaasi men being cruelly beaten to death by the local throng, while policemen simply stand sedentary. Indira Goswami who is a relevant social activist simply said it is very unfortunate and said, she want greater transparancy ???State government, run by Congress whose national leader itself is a woman, who claimed to have gave up PM post for the greater consciousness is sitting blind on these issues ? maybe there are cast politics and subsequent vote banks to be taken care of ....what about the oppositon party who wants India to regain the past glory ? how can a rape of Indian adivaasi woman go unnoticed by those who want indian women to be worshipped as gods ? why do they keep mum ?what are we doing by demanding PERMANENT POST in United Nations ? what can a country give when its own women citizen is stripped and chased across the streets ? Is this the country where Mahatma Gandhi lived ? what happened to his ideologies ?First Woman President of India - Prathibha Patel - why cant she do anything about this ? Is Tribals and lower cast women and men not protected by any laws ? Or is that they dont have a claim over this nation ? why cant a president ring up the Assam Chief Minister and ask what is happening there. Why cant PM all Assam CM ? why cant a Supreme Court Judge call and ask ????why is this happening here ?what more will India need before someone stand up and ask questions ?is there anyone in this nation who can put a stop into this ????? anyone....anyone who read this ????
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india sold by power
by mukesh on 2008-01-15 10:34:36.148235+05:30
sharad power is will win the next election ICC he trying his best. this is "india sold power win gold offer"
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india sold by power
by mukherjee on 2008-01-15 13:50:28.747683+05:30
The BCCI instead of pulling out the team from Australia, has succumbed to their bullying again!! India's honour seriously compromised by BCCI for bucks!! Is that right?
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BRAD HOGG
by MALINI on 2008-01-15 09:38:28.369683+05:30
IT IS STUPIDITY AND SHOWING MEEKNESS AND ENCORAGING CRICKET TO BE THE GAME OF THE WHITES. SHAME ON YOU SHARAD PAWAR FOR BEING UNPATRIOTIC AND TRAITOR.
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racist Indians?
by waxer on 2008-01-15 07:25:35.914086+05:30
I am absolutely astounded that a country that has suffered racism in the past, is now supporting racism itself. No amount of spin-doctoring can hide the fact that Symonds has been racially abused- both by Indian fans when he was in India and by Harbhajan in Australia. Is your cricket barracking so important to you that you will abandon any sense of moral outrage that racism is being accepted by your own cricket team? The Australians were lucky in Sydnety to get a few dodgy decisions go their way, can you in your heart tell me that never happened to them before nuetral umpires in India? Does it give you an excuse to allow racism into your cricket team? I cannot believe even the comments here talking about blacks and negroes in derogatory terms. Have you learned nothing from the days when the British empire were so racist to you? The British mind you, not the blacks like Symonds.
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racist indians? by waxer
by mukherjee on 2008-01-15 13:46:03.931612+05:30
Waxer, there is no question of supporting racisim. The fact is that the brave Sardar (Harbhajan) did not use the word "monkey". So where is the question of condoing or not condoning racism. In fact you show utter bias by assuming that Harbhajan uttered the word at Symonds!! So don't behave as if you are speaking from a high moral ground!! Come on, don't act like Mr. Proctor: believe the Australians without corroboration and disbelieve the Indians without a fair hearing>
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Tagore did not see Ricky Ponting!!!
by Raja on 2008-01-15 02:05:58.200878+05:30
Someone wrote that Tagore or Bernard Shaw did not meet people like Ponting. I thought of not answering this because of its ignoramus nature. But later changed my mind and wish to ask, "Is Ricky Ponting worse than General Dyre?" If so, then hats off to Indian nationalism and patriotism. Tagore lived in the era of people like General Dyre. Hope this will answer something, if not everything. We are far from those age. I do not wish to go back to that age when my children will be called "monkey" by whites and non-whites equally, because India and Indians have agreed that it is not a big deal. I have to keep on writing to get the menace of racism out of the face of humankind. I worry about my children and other children's future.
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