Supreme Court reschedules BCCI’s hearing date to December 14
For the second time, the hearing date of the BCCI has been rescheduled by the Supreme Court. The initial hearing was scheduled to take place on December 3, but was later rescheduled to December 9 after Chief Justice of India, TS Thakur, was reported unwell.
In early October, the BCCI decided to implement only a part of the recommendations proposed by the Lodha Committee during its first Special General Meeting (SGM) in an attempt to make its cricket administration more transparent. But furious over the decisions taken by the BCCI, the Supreme Court threatened to replace board members including the likes of President Anurag Thakur and Chief Secretary Ajay Shirke with its own appointments.
But after hearing the BCCI's arguments on October 21, the SC passed an interim order asking them to stop disbursing funds to state associations until they submit a written resolution that it would adopt the Lodha Committee's recommendations.
BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke were also required to submit an affidavit of compliance in the Court by December 3, explaining the recommendations that were already implemented and the steps taken to convince the member associations to adopt the complete recommendations. The hearing that was scheduled to take place on December 3 was moved to December 9, since Chief Justice of India, TS Thakur, who is a part of the Supreme Court's hearing bench, was unwell. However, the hearing date has now once again been rescheduled, this time December 14.
Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke have submitted their affidavits to the apex court, where the BCCI president has blasted the Lodha panel recommendations, saying the removal of democratically elected office-bearers will “paralyse administration” and that these recommendations “do not appear to be in the interest of cricket”. The Supreme Court were supposed to examine the affidavits on Friday, but now it seems like we will have to wait a bit longer for this drama to reach its conclusion.
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