In a fresh twist to the ongoing case on cricket reforms, the Supreme Court (SC)âÂu00c2u0080Âu00c2u0088yesterday allowed the Centre and embattled Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to suggest names for appointment in the committee of administrators to run the apex cricket body. The SC also made it clear that no one over the age of 70 years should be considered
New Delhi: In a fresh twist to the ongoing case on cricket reforms, the Supreme Court (SC)âÂu00c2u0080Âu00c2u0088yesterday allowed the Centre and embattled Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to suggest names for appointment in the committee of administrators to run the apex cricket body. The SC also made it clear that no one over the age of 70 years should be considered.
The court, which had initially sought names from amicus curiae, Anil Divan and Gopal Subramaniam, for appointing the administrators, deferred the decision to announce the names of administrators till January 30 after BCCI and the central government successfully argued that they should also be allowed to give names in sealed covers for consideration.
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The bench, comprising Justices Dipak Misra, AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, allowed BCCI to shortlist three names from among the existing office bearers who are not disqualified by following due procedure, to represent the board in the ICC executive meeting to be held from February 2.
The names to be considered for the post of administrators and representing BCCI in the ICC meet respectively, have to be submitted in sealed covers in the court by January 27, it said.
The bench took note of the submission made by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who appeared for BCCI, that the cricket body was also given the liberty to suggest names for appointment of administrators and due to some “inadvertence” it was not availed of.
It also considered the arguments of Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi that the Centre, which was “mulling” the idea of coming out with a legislation, be allowed to suggest names.
“We permit them (Centre and BCCI) to suggest names for committee of administrators,” it said, adding that the names “should be in consonance with the main judgement (of July 16, last year) and subsequent orders thereafter”.
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