New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings (CSK) which had been owned by former BCCI chief N Srinivasan’s company India Cement must be suspended.
The apex court tried to know the main controller of CSK by asking the sharing holding pattern in India.
Earlier, Srinivasan had faced the court’s displeasure over conflict of interest for owning an IPL team while remaining at the helm of the cricket establishment.
Last week the bench of Justices TS Thakur and FMI Kalifullah said, “You (Srinivasan) are only assuming that you have been given a clean chit. Don’t go by the Mudgal panel conclusion alone. The question is whether you should at all be serving the BCCI.”
“Conflict of interest is a serious issue. IPL seems to be a mutually cooperative benefit society between BCCI and IPL teams.”
The apex court had asked Srinivasan to step aside as BCCI chief till the justice Mukul Mudgal panel completed its probe into the match-fixing and betting scandal during the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket carnival’s sixth edition.
Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of Srinivasan had been identified by the inquiry committee as a team principal for CSK franchise and is accused of betting on IPL games.
Indian Cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is captain of CSK and is owned by the India Cements company of which Srinivasan is the managing director and has won the seven-year-old IPL tournament twice.
Bureau Report
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