Differences among the top officials of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) have come out in the open with secretary-general Rajeev Mehta terming president Narinder Batra’s decision to dissolve the ethics commission “illegal”.

The latest tussle is on the issue of the term of the ethics panel of the IOA headed by Justice (retired) V.K. Gupta.

Mehta wrote to the executive council members, National Sports Federations and state Olympic bodies that the “dissolving of the IOA ethics commission has been found to be illegal and the commission is reinstated”.