new delhi former coach mk kaushik on monday threatened to take legal action against hockey india accusing the sports body of trying to put him in the dock in the sexual harassment case through manipulationkaushik who is at the centre of the unsavoury episode questioned hockey indias authority to recommend police and government action against him and objected to hi holding that ranjitha devis complaints against him were credible without verifying the allegationshe said since the fivemember inquiry committees report had only factual matters and no recommendations hi could not recommend action against himi object to hockey india deciding not to use my services and recommending delhi police to take action against me the inquiry committee had not at all given any recommendations and how can hi do this he told reporters at a hurriedlyconvened press conferencei object to hi secretary general narinder batra saying that ranjitha devis written reply were credible and had specific charges the report itself said there were no verification of the allegations so it is contradictory on one hand you are saying that her version was credible and at the same time they are not proved how can it be possible he askedi am saying again that all these charges against me are baseless and fabricated i have sent a reply to the letter sent by hi to the sports ministry recommending action on me he said while presenting his lawyers mandira mitra and praveen aggarwal to the mediamitra said his client will see the situation for a while and if necessary will go to courtit is premature to say whether we will go to court or not if necessary we will go to court but first we are replying to the letter sent by hockey india to the government we have given this reply to hi interim president vidya stokes she saidin his letter submitted to hi president kaushik accused the federation of conspiring to malign him in the sport fraternity the management of hockey india is conspiring against me to malign my stature in the sports fraternity and the society in general further it shows that hockey india is conducting this whole affair with a bias against me and concluding that i am guilty and as such this against the principal of natural justice he saidkaushik also accused batra of releasing the letter to the media on saturday and said the general secretary was grossly abusing his poweri would like to record my protest at the gross abuse of power committed by the incumbent secretary general narinder batra who is seeking reelection for the same post in the upcoming elections in releasing the contents of the letter along with documents to the media prior to its receipt by me he said in his replykaushik said the letter is highly manipulative and demanded hockey india to withdraw itthe tone and tenor of this statement makes it clear that the management of hockey india is acting in a vindictive manneri demand hockey india to withdraw