Internet Desk: The Supreme Court on Friday served legal notice to former BCCI supremo N Srinivasan and former board secretary Niranjan Shah over their alleged involvement to obstruct BCCI SGM on July 12 in Delhi. The SGM had to be postponed on the grounds that the meeting was not called with sufficient days of notice required as per BCCI constitution.
The Committee of Administrators submitted 6 CD’s of the audio recordings of the July 12 SGM where Niranjan Shah was heard asking the members not to accept the Lodha reforms. The Apex Court has questioned how the duo can be representatives of any cricket body if they are disqualified to be office bearers. The matter will next come up for hearing on July 24.
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Citing the audio recording from the meet the COA said, “From an audio recording of the SGM, it appears that such disqualified persons were able to effectively hijack proceedings at the SGM by prevailing upon other attendees (who may have been otherwise willing to facilitate the reform process) to either support the cause of such disqualified person or remain silent”.
Srinivasan still exercising his powers, as BCCI SGM gets postponed
“In this manner, such disqualified persons are effectively able to do indirectly what they have been prohibited by this Hon’ble Court from doing directly,” the CoA said. “Such disqualified persons have a vested interest in stalling implementation of the Judgement because, if the Judgment is implemented, such disqualified person will have to relinquish control over their respective State/Member Associations.”
The Supreme Court also accepted the resignation of Vikram Limaye and Ramachandra Guha. Both of them resigned from the CoA citing personal reasons. Amicus Curae Gopal Subhramanyam submitted 6 names to replace Vikram Limaye and Ramchandra Guha. Out of the six names, two is believed to be sportspersons.