The head of an inquiry panel set up in November by the Delhi government to investigate irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association, Chetan Sanghi, wrote to the Union Home Secretary on Monday saying he was under pressure “from various stakeholders”. The letter to Rajiv Mehrishi said there was “considerable emphasis... on naming a certain VIP”, reported The Indian Express.

The three-member team was given three days to file a report on the matter. The senior bureaucrat in his letter said he did not name anyone in the report as that was not his formal mandate. He also added that after the report was filed, two FIRs were by the Anti-Corruption Bureau filed against him for alleged wrongdoing during his tenure as the head of the Delhi Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation between 2010 and 2012.

Sanghi’s letter also said the very short time frame to file the report, three days, did not help, and requested a transfer to the Centre because he was upset with the developments following the report.

The report was the basis on which the Aam Aadmi Party government appointed a commission to investigate the DDCA, headed by former Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam. AAP has been in an ongoing battle with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley after they alleged he was behind the DDCA corruption as it happened during his tenure as its president.