NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has further extended the already long rope given to BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and board secretary Jay Shah, both of whose tenures have long ended as per the apex court’s own judgments, for a further two weeks.
In its latest sitting on Thursday, the Supreme Court Bench of Justice L Narasimha Rao and Justice Vineet Saran decided to hear the BCCI matter “after two weeks”.
Outlook magazine quotes Amicus PS Narasimha as having said in Thursday’s virtual hearing that he will file his reports by this weekend. Narasimha was appointed in March 2019 (emphasis ours) to assist the Supreme Court in disposing of several cases related to cricket administration in India.
More than a dozen petitions are awaiting disposal by Justice Rao’s bench. Most petitions are seeking a roll back of clauses in the new BCCI constitution approved by the Supreme Court in August 2018 on the basis of recommendations made by former Chief Justice of India, RM Lodha.
According to the new BCCI constitution approved by the Supreme Court, Ganguly and Shah should have been ‘cooling off’ for three years each after spending six years as cricket administrators in a state association or BCCI. Their terms ended around the middle of 2020.
