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XtraTime Web Desk: The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to hear the plea of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to modify its constitution after two weeks. The request by BCCI is primarily to enable President Sourav Ganguly and Secretray Jay Shah to continue office instead of going for a mandatory three years cooling off period. The Bench was led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde and L Nageswara Rao agreed to hear the plea of the board after two weeks.

Both Ganguly and Shah assumed charge as elected office-bearers last October. Prior to their appointment the board was run by Supreme Court appointed Committee of Arbitrators. Soon after, however, the board started an apparent effort to dilute the apex court-directed administrative reforms. During its annual general meeting in December, the BCCI passed several resolutions so as to facilitate the rule change in the constitution by appealing to the apex court.

In the civil appeal filed on April 21, the BCCI, among other requests, asked the Supreme Court to separate the tenures of office-bearers and the state associations before serving mandatory cooling-off periods. The board has also requested India’s apex court to do away with a clause allowing any amendment to its constitution only with a SC approval.

Secretary Jay Shah is supposed to go to a cooling off period of three years at the end of last month while President Sourav Ganguly will have to demit his charges at the end of this month.