The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the BCCI to defer its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and elections of office-bearers till January 31, 2015, while maintaining the “entire game of cricket will collapse if people’s faith is not restored” and steps were not Bayern Munich jersey 2015 taken to correct the wrongs.
A bench of Justices TS Thakur and FMI Kalifulla asked the BCCI to adjourn its AGM, slated to be held on December 17, as the court continued its hearing into allegations of betting and conflict of interest in the IPL 2013.
“You have to understand that the entire game of cricket and its edifice would collapse if such kind of arrangement is allowed to continue and if people’s confidence is not restored. If you (BCCI) fail in your duty, can’t we get it corrected? If there is some temptation for a thief to enter, why can’t you stop it? Messi jersey Why are you averse to it?” the Manchester City jersey sale bench asked BCCI.
“We are still in the process of hearing. It will take some time to conclude so directions are issued that the annual general meeting to elect office-bearers of the BCCI shall stand postponed by January 31,” it said.
The order came after BCCI counsel CA Sundaram cited some technical problems in allowing the incumbent office-bearers in the board to continue after the expiry of their term in September, and sought directions from the bench.
As the hearing began on Wednesday, N Srinivasan’s counsel Kapil Sibal handed over a note to the bench with an undertaking from the ousted BCCI chief. “Mr N Srinivasan undertakes that if he is elected as president of BCCI, till the (proposed) committee suggests the procedure to deal with the issue of conflict of interest, he will not attend any IPL governing council meeting or any other IPL related discussion in any meeting of working committee or general body meeting of the BCCI,” it stated. The note added that the committee could Barcelona jersey sale suggest sanctions to be imposed, in accordance with applicable IPL rules, on person prima facie found to be involved in the act of betting by the Mudgal panel, besides determining the liability of the franchisees.
It said that another term of reference for the proposed committee could be “to consider and suggest a mechanism to identify the potential conflict of interest in the BCCI and to suggest the procedure to be adopted for dealing with situations of potential conflict of interest”.
However, the BCCI opposed Srinivasan’s suggestion to let the new committee adjudicate upon the issues relating to conflict of interest, raising the question of its autonomy as a private society registered under the Societies’ Registration Act. Sundaram told the bench that while the BCCI was agreeable on the new panel looking into disciplinary aspect and prescribe punishment, conflict of interest issue should be left to the BCCI governing continued…
