NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld as unsustainable and impermissible an amendment in BCCI rule permitting cricket administrator to have commercial interest in IPL and Champions League.
The apex court ruled, "N Srinivasan or any administrator having commercial interest in cricket can't
contest for BCCI post till they have those interests." "BCCI did not adhere to prescribed procedures while conducting probe in IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal," the court said.
The court also said, "Rajasthan Royals owner Raj Kundra and Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan's role in betting stands proved." The court has set up a 3-member panel headed by ex-CJI R M Lodha to decide quantum of punishment against Meiyappan and Kundra.
"The Amendment in BCCI rules allowing Srinivasan to own IPL team, is bad. Conflict of interest in Cricket leads to great confusion," the court said. "Charges of cover-up against BCCI president-in-exile N Srinivasan not proved ," the court added.
The Supreme Court pronounced its judgement on various issues including the conflict of interest involving BCCI president-in-exile N Srinivasan in the wake of alleged betting and spot fixing scam of IPL 6 in 2013.
A Bench of Justices T S Thakur and F M I Kalifulla on December 17 last had reserved its verdict on the matter in which several interim directions since August 2013 were passed including the setting up of the three-member committee headed Justice Mukul Mudgal, former chief justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Srinivasan, his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, Rajasthan Royals owner Raj Kundra, cricket administrator Sundararaman, were probed by the Justice Mudgal committee which had found "some misdemeanour by certain persons" and indicted them in the IPL 6 scam.
The conflict of interest concerning Srinivasan has come under the scrutiny as he was not only the BCCI president but was also the Managing Director of India Cements, the company which owned the IPL team Chennai Super Kings in which his son-in-law, according to the Mudgal Committee, was an official and was allegedly involved in the betting.
During the pendency of the matter, Srinivasan was asked by the apex court to keep himself away from the affairs of the IPL.
When the final report of the Justice Mudgal Committee was opened, the apex court had said the identity of the players should not not be made public at this stage.
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