New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said N Srinivasan must step down as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chief to enable free and fair probe into the allegations of spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), According to reports.
Why is Srinivasan sticking to his chair? If you don’t step down, then we will pass the order, the Supreme Court said according to news quota
You are filled with filth, there needs to be serious cleaning, Supreme Court reportedly said BCCI lawyers.
The SC also refused to divulge the details of the report in open court but allowed BCCI counsel to go through certain portion of the report.
Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, was found guilty of match-fixing and betting during IPL 2013 by the Justice Mukul Mudgal-led committee probing corruption charges against team owners of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals.
The report, running into 170 pages and more than 4,000 pages of annexes, was handed to Supreme Court judges Ananga Kumar Patnaik and Jagdish Singh Khehar.
The three-member panel, headed by former Punjab and Haryana high court chief justice Mudgal, had said the allegations of fixing against Meiyappan required further investigation.
The court had appointed the panel on October 8 last year to investigate the scandal that rocked the popular Twenty20 tournament run by the BCCI.
Bureau Report
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