New Delhi: The International Olympic Committee in a letter to the IOA on Saturday made it clear that it will not lift India's suspension until the Indian body ensured absolute clarity in the charge-framed clause by ratifying the interpretations suggested by the world body .
The IOC had on Friday issued guidelines to avoid “unnecessary specula tion or doubtful interpretation“, making it clear that charge-framed persons will have to resign automatically or else be suspended provisionally .
The IOA amended its constitution on December 8 by barring charge-framed persons like Abhey Singh Chautala and Lalit Bhanot from elections set for February 9, but the sticking point has been the provision to refer the matter to its ethics commission.
The world body had also made a veiled threat that it reserved the right to impose necessary sanctions if the IOA does not ratify the interpretations suggested by the IOC.
“Upon receipt of confirmation of the IOC's interpretation and of the minutes of the next general meeting, which will ratify the above interpretation of these clauses, the IOC will be in a position to confirm its formal approval of this Constitution,“ the IOC said in a letter written by its NOC relations director Pere Miro to IOA officials.
