BCCI goes to top court to challenge HC verdict

Aug 06, 2013 |

Age Correspondent

The Indian cricket board on Monday filed a plea in the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court’s order that held as “illegal and unconstitutional” the panel of two former judges formed by it to probe allegations against its president N. Srinivasan, his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra following IPL-6 spot-fixing and betting revelations.

Submitting in its plea that the probe panel was set up legally, the BCCI sought an immediate stay of the high court’s July 30 order, terming it erroneous.
This verdict came just two days after the BCCI panel, comprising two former judges of the Madras high court, submitted a report on July 28 giving a clean chit to all those against whom the probe was conducted.
“The (probe) commission was not duly constituted and was contrary to and in violation of the provisions of Rules 2.2 and 3 of Section 6 of the operational rules (of the BCCI),” the high court held.
The Bombay high court also rejected Mr Srinivisan’s plea for a stay to enable him move a higher court.
The HC had noted Rule 2.2 mandated the presence of at least one member of the IPL code of behaviour committee on the commission.

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