NEW DELHI: Former Team India cricketer S Sreesanth has moved the Supreme Court challenging BCCI’s life ban imposed on him.
In the plea, the Kerala pacer has said that BCCI’s decision was within the purview of a judicial review as he has the right to live with dignity and reputation. He is also expected to ask the SC to reveal the names of the 13 cricketers that had cropped up in the course of the Mukul Mudgal committee’s investigation into corruption.
The case will be heard by the apex court on February 5.
Sreesanth’s appeal in the Supreme Court challenges the ruling of a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court that had upheld the ban imposed by the BCCI on the cricketter.
In his appeal, Sreesanth has argued that the the Division Bench had erred in overturning the ruling of a Single Judge Bench that had lifted the ban, whilst also ruling that the BCCI’s ban was not open to review.
He has further argued in his plea that as a sportsman he has the fundamental right to live with dignity and reputation and BCCI’s decision was certainly under the purview of judicial review.
The pacer was handed a life ban by the Indian board for his alleged involvement in a spot-fixing scandal while being a part of Rajasthan Royals franchise during IPL 2013.
Sreesanth was acquitted of fixing charges by a special Delhi court, following which he had approached the board asking it to lift the ban, which the board refused to do.
