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AP, New Delhi

India's cricket board received a report from its inquiry commissioner Tuesday investigating the slapping incident featuring Harbhajan Singh and fellow test player Shantakumaran Sreesanth during a domestic twenty20 match last month.

Sudhir Nanavati, who is investigating the row, handed over his 14-page report to the Board of Control for Cricket in India's chief administrator Ratnakar Shetty in Mumbai.

Shetty will forward the report to BCCI president Sharad Pawar, who heads the three-member disciplinary panel that will meet soon to proceed further on the matter.

Singh has already been banned from a lucrative domestic Twenty20 tournament over the incident and fined his entire fee for that match, but also faces suspensions from international cricket.

"It's for the cricket board to take appropriate action on the report," Nanavati was quoted as saying by Press Trust of India.

Singh's Twenty20 tournament ban has seen him lose a substantial portion of potential income from a contract worth US$850,000 (euro545,000) for the season.

Earlier this year, Singh was at the center of controversy during India's test tour of Australia when he was banned for three tests for allegedly making racist remarks against Australia allrounder Andrew Symonds. His appeal of the ban was upheld and his punishment subsequently reduced to a fine.