New Delhi: The internal feud within the&nbsp;BCCI took an ugly turn on Monday with board secretary Anurag&nbsp;Thakur launching a stinging attack on ICC Chairman N&nbsp;Srinivasan, saying that he should actually share information&nbsp;on bookies with his own family members "whose involvement in&nbsp;betting has been proved".
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A day after ICC issued an advisory to Thakur to stay&nbsp;away from suspected bookies, the BCCI secretary hit back at&nbsp;Srinivasan through an open letter in which he questioned the&nbsp;timing of the "counter offensive" initiated at the behest of&nbsp;the ICC Chairman.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/apr/anurag-thakur.jpg" alt="Anurag Thakur" /> BCCI secretary&nbsp;Anurag Thakur&nbsp;
Reports had said that BCCI was sent a letter by the&nbsp;ICC about Thakur being seen with an alleged bookie Karan&nbsp;Gilhotra in Chandigarh and the BJP MP's office today issued a&nbsp;media release.
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"The BCCI has received intimation from the ICC ostensibly&nbsp;under your direction that I should keep away from one Mr.&nbsp;Karan Gilhotra who is a 'suspected bookie'. The intimation&nbsp;furthur states that the information is furthur unverified"&nbsp;Thakur said in a scathing letter to Srinivasan.&nbsp;
"I have earlier been Joint Secretary of the BCCI under&nbsp;your Presidentship and I am now Secretary BCCI. I only wish&nbsp;that you had shared the list of 'unverified suspected bookies'&nbsp;with me and other colleagues so that we could identify such&nbsp;persons and keep away from them. I have known this person, who&nbsp;has been active in political and cricketing activities in&nbsp;Punjab and adjacent states. I had no knowledge or any clue&nbsp;about his 'activites as a supected bookie', he said.&nbsp;
Thakur said "it is curious that intimation about having&nbsp;known this 'suspected bookie' was brought to the ICC notice by&nbsp;your friend Mr. Neeraj Gunde. Mr. Neeraj Gunde incidentally is&nbsp;circulating to the media in Delhi the details of documents&nbsp;against your critics in the BCCI. He operates on your behalf".&nbsp;
He alleged that a procured complaint and an ICC advisory&nbsp;based on unverified information was issued on Srinivasan's&nbsp;behest on the eve of the BCCI Working Committee meeting. It&nbsp;was intended to be a counter offensive since Srinivasan had&nbsp;not reconciled with my election as Secretary BCCI.
"I would request atleast now share with me or other&nbsp;colleagues in BCCI the list of suspected bookies in India so&nbsp;that we may keep away from them. You may also share this&nbsp;information with your family members whose involvement in&nbsp;betting has been proved," he said.&nbsp;
"Since the ICC advisory to me had been made in public I&nbsp;would be making this letter to you public," Thakur wrote in the letter addressed to Srinivasan on his BCCI letter-head. 
It is understood that the matter was brought up in the&nbsp;BCCI Working Committee meeting in Kolkata yesterday but&nbsp;President Jagmohan Dalmiya paid no heed to the ICC letter. 
Even though the ICC letter came under the name of CEO&nbsp;Dave Richardson, it was seen as the handiwork of Srinivasan.&nbsp;
It was speculated that Dalmiya and company will not react&nbsp;on this letter but Thakur's remarks have stirred up a hornet's&nbsp;nest. 
The former BCCI supremo is also under-fire with the&nbsp;issue involving the contentious valuation of the India&nbsp;Cements-owned CSK franchise.&nbsp;
While there were arguments from both sides during the&nbsp;BCCI working committee meeting, a press release later in the&nbsp;day said that the board would seek 'further legal opinion&nbsp;on the demerger and transfer of shares of CSK for furthur&nbsp;action'.&nbsp;

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Reacting to ICC letter about him&nbsp;socialising with an alleged bookie, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur has lashed out at N Srinivasan&nbsp;in an open letter&nbsp;and asked him to issue list of suspected bookies

Anurag Thakur tells Srinivasan: 'Share list of bookies with your family'

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