New Delhi: Two of three-member committee set up by the disbanded Indian Hockey Federation to inquire into the sting operation by a television news channel have resigned, IOA chief Suresh Kalmadi said today.

Rattled by the bribe scandal involving its secretary K Jothikumaran, the IHF had set up the three-member committee headed by retired Judge of Madras High Court Justice K M N Natarajan.

Former Director General of Tamil Nadu Police W I Davaram and IHF Joint Secretary Rajeev Mehta were the other members of the committee but Kalmadi today said two members have informed the IOA that they would not be a part of the committee.

"Two members had written a letter to the IOA that they do not want to be part of the committee," Kalmadi said at a press conference here after the IOA Executive Committee unanimously disbanded the IHF.
"I have told K P S Gill who was present at the Executive Committee meeting," he said.

When asked if the committee was as good as dissolved now, Kalmadi replied, "you can interpret it like that."