Administrators get major relief from Supreme Court

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday clarified that an officer-bearer of the BCCI for nine years can still become part of the state cricket association. Further the bench said that if a person has been an office-bearer in the state association for nine years he cannot be barred from becoming holding a post in the BCCI.

Attorney General Mukul. Rohatgi, who appeared for Railway Sports Promotion Board, Services Sports Control Board and All India Universities, submitted that these three members of BCCI, who had full membership earlier, now stand relegated and down-graded to associate member status without voting rights as per the Lodha committee’s “one state-one vote” recommendation. He said applications have been filed to recall the July 18, 2016 judgment in this regard. The court said all these applications will be taken up for hearing on July 14.

On January 2, the court had dismantled the existing power structure of the BCCI by removing the board’s president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke for impeding the implementation of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations. The court said the board would be supervised by a committee of administrators until new office-bearers were elected once the BCCI implemented the recommendations. The court had directed the COA to supervise the administration of the BCCI through its chief executive officer Rahul Johri.