Committee Of Administrators Issues List Of Requests To Supreme Court

Jul 14, 2017 at 3:24 PM

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Committee Of Administrators Issues List Of Requests To Supreme Court

After taking a dig at the BCCI’s old policy, the Committee of Administrators has yet again pinned down BCCI’s old guard by issuing a list of requests to the Supreme Court stating what they need to do keep things in shape.

The CoA was appointed by the Supreme Court so, in all likelihood, their requests should be fulfilled which will further damage the bigwigs of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

The CoA has taken the names of already ineligible office bearers namely Niranjan Shah and N Srinivasan to the people problematic towards the Lodha Committee recommendations. According to the Lodha report submitted, the duo is already ineligible to continue as the head of Tamil Nadu and Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) respectively given the fact they were over the prescribed age of 70.

Despite these restrictions, these two big names in the administration have found ways to attend important board meetings, the most recent being the Special General Meetings on May 7 and 26 respectively.

“From an audio recording of the SGM, it appears that such disqualified person was able to effectively hijack proceedings at the SGM by prevailing upon other attendees (who may have been otherwise willing to facilitate the reform process) to either support the cause of such disqualified person or remain silent,” the COA said.

“In this manner, such disqualified persons are effectively able to do indirectly what they have been prohibited by this Hon’ble Court from doing directly. Such disqualified persons have a vested interest in stalling implementation of the Judgement because, if the Judgment is implemented, such disqualified person will have to relinquish control over their respective State/Member Associations,” the CoA further added.

The list of requests made by the Committee of Administrators:

a) Issue appropriate directions (including under Article 142 of the Constitution of India) to empower the Committee of Administrators to finalise the text of the New BCCI Constitution.

b) Direct the Registrar of Societies under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975 to give effect to the New BCCI Constitution immediately upon the Committee of Administrators submitting the same to the Registrar.

c) Direct the constituent State/Member Associations of BCCI to bring their respective constitutions in line with the Hon’ble Justice Lodha Committee recommendations (as applicable to them in terms of the New BCCI Constitution) on or before December 31, 2017.

d) Injunct any person(s)/group of persons/associations from interfering with the functioning of the Committee of Administrators for implementing the directions contained in the Judgment as well as for implementing measures relating to conflict of interest, good governance and transparency in the functioning of BCCI.

e) Direct the appointment of an Ombudsman for BCCI forthwith and direct that such Ombudsman be reappointed at the AGM to be held in September 2017.

f) Direct implementation of the New Conflict of Interest Rules.

g) Issue appropriate direction restraining persons who are disqualified from being office-bearers of their respective State/Member Associations from being nominated as representatives to attend any SGM or AGM of BCCI.

h) Issue appropriate directions prohibiting persons who are disqualified from being office bearers of BCCI from being part of any committees of BCCI.

i) Issue appropriate directions admitting the Cricket Association of Pondicherry as an Associate Member…

j) Issue appropriate directions clarifying that the period of cooling off will apply in respect of all office bearers BCCI and State/Member Associations such that no person will be entitled to hold an office as an office-bearer immediately upon the conclusion of a 3-year term either in BCCI or in a State Association until the exhaustion of the cooling off period.

k) Issue appropriate directions re-constituting the Steering Committee for establishing the Cricket Players’ Association.

l) Issue appropriate directions for filling vacancies on the Committee of Administrators.

m) Pass such or further orders as this Honorable Court deems appropriate in the fact and circumstances.

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