Published: Dec 08, 2014, 03:19 PM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 11:39 AM (IST)
Dec 8, 2014
The Supreme Court will continue the hearing on the IPL 2013 spot-fixing and betting scandal on Monday, December 8. During the last hearing of the matter on December 1, Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) troubled chief N Srinivasan defended himself and said that he had consulted Sharad Pawar before going in to buy the IPL franchise.
15.15 IST: The Supreme Court has told the BCCI that those who are at the helm should be above suspicion. The apex court has also told the board that it should avoid even a likelihood of conflict of interest.
Earlier, International Cricket Council (ICC) chief N Srinivasan says he had asked then-BCCI president Pawar before bidding for Chennai Super Kings (CSK). Earlier, the Supreme Court had observed that members of India Cements could not contest in the BCCI elections, which essentially prevents Srinvasan from returning to a position in the BCCI. The Supreme Court has said that IPL franchise CSK must be disqualified.
Purity of cricket has to be maintained and all persons at the helm of its affairs should be above suspicion, SC to BCCI.
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) December 8, 2014
Aditya Verma, the petitioner in the case informed last week, “Next Monday and Tuesday the court will hear on the matter and may also give the decision. The lawyers, Harish Salve and Nalini Chidambaram did the talk in the court today. Being a petitioner I cannot understand why the BCCI and N Srinivasan are objecting on the matters that have been found out. I believe all the documents that BCCI have submitted today; I can say that they were manufactured documents.”
