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BCCI files new application against Supreme Court order
- Updated: September 28, 2016
The BCCI has filed a fresh application in the Supreme Court pleading for the court’s July 18 order to be “suspended” until it hears the board’s review and curative petitions against the mandatory implementation of most of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations.
The board’s affidavit, filed on September 27, is not a response to the status report filed by the Lodha Committee in the court, which recommended that all BCCI office bearers be “superseded” because they were stalling the process of implementation of the reforms. The Supreme Court had given the BCCI a week to respond to the status report.
The BCCI argued in its affidavit that the board had the right to seek more time before following the various timelines set by the Lodha Committee to set in motion the recommendations approved by the court. “The timelines framed by the Hon’ble Committee do not take into account the legal remedies available to the Applicant [BCCI] in the form of review petition and curative petition,” the affidavit, signed by Ratnakar Shetty, the BCCI general manager, administration and game development, stated.
The BCCI said it “ought to be granted” adequate time to exhaust its legal remedies. “Grave and irreparable loss, harm and prejudice will be caused to the Applicant if the Application is not heard. It is, therefore, respectfully prayed …
