New Delhi: The Supreme Court said sidelined BCCI president N Srinivasan should have refrained from functioning as the cricket board chief after the apex court had declared that he was in a conflict of interest situation and could not contest elections.


N Srinivasan. Pic/Getty Images 

Referring to its January 2 verdict which held that Srinivasan, head of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the owner of Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Chennai Super Kings, was in a conflict of interest situation, the apex court bench of Justice TS Thakur and Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla said yesterday: "Having said that it makes him very vulnerable, we are not very happy about it.