Srini gets a jolt, BCCI forced to defer meet
The Indian cricket board’s working committee meeting here on Friday proved a non-starter as it was apparently called off due to a “technical hitch” in the notice sent to members.
But the IPL governing council, that met just before the working committee, decided to approach the Supreme Court against the Bombay high court ruling terming the BCCI-appointed two-member probe panel into the spot-fixing and betting scandal as “illegal and unconstitutional”.
While the meeting’s cancellation was officially ascribed to a technical hitch, it is suspected that a few senior members of the board convinced president in self-exile N. Srinivasan that the time was not appropriate for him to come back and chair the working committee. His planned move bristled with legal infirmities that could lead to the possible filing of PILs in various courts across the country. It is learnt that the working committee will now meet only after the Supreme Court has taken a view. The special leave petition is likely to be filed before the court next week. The meeting’s cancellation means that interim chief Jagm-ohan Dalmiya may remain in charge of the BCCI till its annual general meeting is held in September. BCCI vice-president Arun Jaitl-ey, one of the country’s top legal minds, held consultations with Mr Srinivasan, Mr Dalmiya and Mr Rajeev Shukla before the IPL governing council meeting and apprised them of the legal position, after which it was decided to call off the working committee meeting.
Mr Srinivasan, who was present, decided to recuse himself from the general council meeting while the decision on filing a special leave petition in the SC was being taken, and joined in only afterwards. “This decision having been made, Mr Srinivasan rejoined the meeting and, in the light of the pending appeal to the Supreme Court, requested Mr Dalmiya to continue discharging his functions at the BCCI for the present,” a BCCI statement read.
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