chennai the cyber crime cell of the chennai police has registered a case and launched investigations following a complaint by bcci presidentelect n srinivasan that his mobile phone was hacked into and smses were sent to some ipl team owners asking them to fall in lineaccording to srinivasans complaint a few ipl team owners had recently received an sms from his mobile number warning that they too would face action because of their links with former ipl chief lalit modi srinivasan said in his complaint that he was shocked when he heard about the sms he said he requested the team owners to send the sms back to him and denied sending any such message a police officer told toi another police officer confirmed that those who received the message included the owners of bangalore royal challengers mumbai indians and another team all three contacted srinivasan on receiving the message we are not sure if the message was sent only to these three but as these three team owners contacted srinivasan after receiving the sms he came to know about the hacking the officer saida cyber crime official said we have approached a service provider in mumbai to identify the origin of the sms we hope to receive the details in a day or two we are also in discussion with the technical team to narrow down on the hacker police have registered a case under section 66c of the information technology act 2008 hacking a computer system the teams reportedly received the message a day after the cricket board barred rajasthan royals and kings xi punjab from participating in ipl 4 the bcci soon issued a formal and categorical denial in a statement chief administration officer ratnakar shetty said the board would like to clarify that no such message has been sent from his mobile this is clearly a case of foul play and complaints to that effect are being lodged with the concerned mobile phone service and the police for immediate action the sms reportedly read as we have been saying please align yourself with us or everyone will get the same taste of the medicine we have given today to rr and kxip owners should not think they are above the bcci you should be happy we allow you to participate we know how to clip your wings president and i have decided we will run the ipl the way we want to and after all its our property you can either be a part of it or we can find a way for you to get out we will throw lalit modi and anyone attached with him so best avoid talking to him