Published: Nov 18, 2014, 06:22 PM (IST)
Edited: Nov 18, 2014, 06:22 PM (IST)
Nov 18, 2014
N Srinivasan, former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chief and the present International Cricket Council (ICC) Chairman on Monday was cleared by the Supreme Court after Mudgal Committee’s report said that he was not involved in two of the key issues, i.e. betting or match-fixing and scuttling the investigations.
Srinivasan is now believed to have taken a vow as not to speak regarding the controversy until the supreme court delivers the final verdict regarding the issue. An assistant of Srinivasan said to The Times of India, “Tell us how to deal with this, he has to go for a walk.”
Although cleared of the above charges for the time being, it would be interesting to see if he is still charged of for scuttling the investigations. However, with the Mudgal panel currently giving him clean chit on that account, his associates believe that it is enough to bring him back in power. Sources close to him say, “The setractors have been saying that he was trying to scuttlr the probe. The committee report makes it clear that he never had any such inclination. It’s good that truth has prevailed.”
However, there is the third allegation against the former BCCI president that he was aware of the code violation no.3 by an individual, but did not take any action to resolve the issue. It is understood to be including a famous batsman with the incident believed to be happened outside India. In order to solve the issue, the officials in the Mudgal panel could include a former spearhead official of the BCCI.
The only thing that would be worrying Srinivasan right now would be regarding the issue against his son-in-law, Gurunath Meiyappan. However, it is yet not clear if he was trying to protect his son-in-law. An official said, “Gurunath never had any official designation and legally it’s not possible for him to be the owner of the team. India Cements is a publicly listed company and all the share holders are its owners. Even Srinivasan is not the owner, so how can anyone else be?”
“There are a few legal battles still to be fought, but we believe we will come out unscathed. Let’s wait till 24th [November],” said a supporter of Srinivasan.
