Published: Feb 18, 2016, 09:58 PM (IST)
Edited: Feb 18, 2016, 09:58 PM (IST)
Even as the BCCI’s Special General Meeting, which has been convened tomorrow, is all set to discuss the implementation of the Justice (retired) R M Lodha Committee report, Verma, the petitioner in the conflict of interest case in the Supreme Court on whose petition N Srinivasan was asked by the apex court to step down as the Board President, beseeched the Board to accept them in toto. “It comes as a surprise to see the BCCI offer any resistance to the recommendations made by the Committee headed by former Chief Justice Lodha, especially when they had orally undertaken to the Supreme Court that they would follow the recommendations given by Justice Lodha,” said Verma in a media release.
He also earnestly appealed to the BCCI “to implement the recommendations of the Justice Lodha Committee forthwith.”
Verma also said he would move the Delhi High Court seeking a CBI or NIA probe into the hacking of emails of sevaral people, including his, through a professional agency for which the Board incurred an expense of Rs 16 crore and has formed a small committee to inquire into the matter.
“The committee formed by the Board to probe this has no legal powers. I intend to approach the Delhi High Court to file a criminal case and seek a probe by CBI or NIA,” Verma said.
Verma also said that on March 3, the date set by the Supreme Court to hear the reply of BCCI on implementation of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations, he intended to ask what happened to the sealed envelope, containing the names of administrators and some top cricketers, given by the Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee appointed by the apex court to probe the spot-fixing and betting scandal in IPL 2013.
“I would request to know what has happened to the sealed envelope on March 3,” said Verma whose relentless pursuit of the conflict of interest case against Srinivasan has shaken the BCCI’s structure.
