SC reserves order on Subramanian Swamy's plea over CSK suspension

The Supreme Court has reserved the orders on a plea filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy who challenged the R M Lodha panel’s decision of suspending IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings for two years. CSK and Rajasthan Royals were banned from the IPL over the spot-fixing and betting scam of 2013.

Swamy filed a plea against the suspension of Chennai Super Kings and the bench led by Justice TS Thakur heard it but reserved the orders for a further date.

Swamy wrote in the petition, “Lalit Modi, who was formerly chairman of the Governing Council of the Indian Premier League, a commercial cricket venture involving private teams started by the BCCI, had in fact successfully stage-managed and financed a so-called PIL filed by Aditya Verma, representing the Cricket Association of Bihar,” reported The Hindu.

Swamy added in his petition about the illegal joining of hands in this matter to destroy the country’s cricketing culture.

The BJP leader has also stated that he has the possession of “various communications, including authenticated emails, which are deeply disturbing, because of the alarming attempt by a coterie or informal syndicate viz., the Cricket Association of Bihar, proclaimed offender Lalit Modi, then BCCI president Shashank Manohar, and some others in Dubai to dupe the legal fraternity...”

He stated that it is a conspiracy to let India’s cricket down. He wrote, “The petition alleged that they had, in furtherance of a “conspiracy, come to this Court with unclean hands with the sole motive of capturing the game of cricket, and particularly destroy CSK as well as the entire cricketing structure of the BCCI.”