Dubai: The suspense over the future of the officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) continued with the Supreme Court adjourning the hearing regarding the Justice Lodha committee recommendations to Friday, December 9.
The BCCI’s reluctance to accept the recommendations was to be heard by the Supreme Court but Justice TS Thakur was unwell and could not take up the case. The Lodha committee was formed on January 22, 2015 by the Supreme Court after the Mudgal committee, appointed as an investigator into the IPL 2013 scandal, submitted its report.
In the latest status report of the committee before the Supreme Court it had asked for the removal of all BCCI office-bearers and the appointment of former home secretary GK Pillai as observer to preside over the functioning of the cricket board.
As per the Lodha Committee recommendations, approved by the court, an office-bearer of the BCCI or its affiliates stands disqualified upon reaching 70 years of age or serving office for a cumulative period of nine years. A minister or government servant is also debarred from holding any office in cricket administration. All these recommendations and a few others too were also not accepted by the state associations of the BCCI.
The BCCI has consistently argued that they have implemented many of the Lodha panel’s recommendations but their members have problems in implementing only some of them.
