Show us you are not in conflict of interest, SC tells Srinivasan


New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS): The Supreme Court Monday asked the side-stepped Indian cricket board president N. Srinivasan to show that he was not placed in a conflict of interest situation over the allegation of betting against his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan who is an official of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK), owned by India Cement Limited.

Srinivasan, besides being the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the country's cricketing body, is also a member of the Indian Premier League (IPL) governing council and the vice-chairman and managing director of India Cement Limited.

"There is either conflict of interest or there is no conflict of interest. There is no third thing. Show us that there is no conflict of interest," the apex court bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla told senior counsel Kapil Sibal who appeared for Srinivasan.

"That we will examine," Justice Kalifulla told Sibal as he sought to impress upon the court that the question of conflict of interest was not there and was not gone into by the Bombay High Court, the two-judge judicial committee appointed by the BCCI, and even the apex court-appointed Mudgal Committee which tendered its two reports in February and November 2014.

"The question of conflict of interest being there or not, whether the matter was addressed by the high court or not is no consequence," court told Sibal.

It made it clear that it would go into the matter raised by the petitioner Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB), which has sought that Srinivasan stays away from contesting the election for the BCCI president and that IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, owned by the India Cement Limited, be disqualified from the IPL.

 

  

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  • Joe Britto, Nakre/Bangalore

    Tue, Dec 02 2014

    The Supreme Court questioning the BCCI is indeed doing the the cricket fans a great favour.In fact it is the fans across the country who have made the game what it is today .

    BCCI should do well in naming all the Cricketers involved and not be forced by the Supreme court to reveal the names. The excuse is that it will tarnish the game and cause chaos to cricket in India . The real fact is that many politicians are involved from important parties. This invisible power support can be felt as today only few top retired cricketers are able to garner positions of Importance and literally run the show. If one were to closely observe even the very ion of the Test Cricket playing 11 is centred around a few chosen individuals who form the nucleus. Other new players ed outside this group are hardly given 2 or 3 half chances to clinch a permanent position (Which rarely happens). Club over country is the priority and money obviously rules the roost than anything else.Conflict of interest is obvious. Test cricket has been taken for a ride and so have been the fans. T 20 has taken over the 50 over game as well. It's therefore logical conclusion that very few players can play well in a Test matches and hence India is ranked low and can win Test matches only against weak teams and that too at home in ideal condition. If those involved in this scam are favoring a particular IPL team, it is but common sense that the leaders of this team and it's players would probably be definitely be involved as well. There is really no need to mention the names, but still it's anyone's guess as to who are the players involved by the way they have conducted themselves at Press Confederates and by the stony silence they have exhibited when confronted by the media. Small fish are caught. But soon the the TRUTH shall prevail. Many talented Cricket careers have been ruined due the greed of a few. Many seniors have been sidelined and one bad show is enough to be ped.

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