Rahul Johri, who is at the centre of a probe into allegations of sexual harassment, is by all accounts “working from home.”

Except Vinod Rai, who heads the two-member Committee of Administrators (CoA) appointed by the Supreme Court, the rest of the world finds that extremely odd.

As odd is that internal communications of the Board of Control for Cricket in India are being copied to Johri, who has been the CEO from April 2016.

On Thursday, The Telegraph accessed an email from Syed Saba Karim (GM-Operations) to Amitabh Choudhary, acting secretary, which has been copied to five individuals plus Johri.

The last paragraph of Saba Karim’s email reads: “I am adding the CoA and Mr Johri on this mail for their information.”

Saba Karim’s email to Amitabh was in response to a query seeking names of the beneficiaries of the “unprecedented” mid-season change in the eligibility rule for representing a state in Board-conducted tournaments.

Amitabh also sought the reasons for the “unauthorised” change at the CoA’s behest and the rules as they used to exist and as they are now.

Diana Edulji is the second Administrator, but it appears the change was effected at the behest of Rai only.

Why?

Amitabh’s email had been sent on October 30. That it took Saba Karim 15 days to reply (he did so at 3.47pm on November 14) doesn’t speak highly of the professionalism which is supposed to be at play within the Board.

But, then, what better to expect when the organisation’s CEO is himself the subject of a probe to determine allegations of sexual harassment!

According to Saba Karim’s email, the beneficiaries are Pratyush Singh (Tripura) and Mizoram’s Rohan Choudhary.

One understands that Singh’s father was “repatriated” to Tripura and, so, he shouldn’t have been the beneficiary of the changed rule, which waived off the one-year requirement of having resided in the state.

“The transfer of Singh’s father was not a regular one as he has been repatriated. That being so, the boy wasn’t eligible for a benefit earmarked only for government employees on transfer,” one of the well-placed sources said.

One wonders why the technical committee of the Board, headed by no less than Sourav Ganguly, didn’t resign in protest at Rai’s/ CoA’s decision.