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- Updated: October 6, 2016
The Supreme Court of India has started hearing the matter pertaining to the Lodha Committee’s status report, which recommended that the existing BCCI office bearers be replaced by a panel of administrators. Following is a summary of the arguments heard in the court before lunch on Thursday
The court asked the amicus curiae Subramanium that if it were to approve the Lodha Committee’s recommendation to supersede the BCCI office bearers, would there be eligibility criteria for the people comprising the panel of administrators, and whether they needed to be cricketers? Subraminum said there was no criteria as long as the new administrators were of impeccable stature.
Chief Justice of India TS Thakur then asked Kapil Sibal, the BCCI’s legal counsel, if the board’s office bearers had any special skills. Sibal said the BCCI president Anurag Thakur was a cricketer, having played one Ranji Trophy match for Himachal Pradesh.
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