NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has listed for final hearing the appeal of banned cricketer S Sreesanth challenging a Kerala High Court verdict restoring the life ban imposed on him by the BCCI in the wake of the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal.
“Let the appeal be listed for final hearing after eight weeks,” PTI quotes a Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud as having ruled.
A division bench of the Kerala High Court had restored the life ban imposed on the former India pacer on a petition filed by the BCCI challenging a single-judge bench’s order that had lifted the ban.
The bench had said there was no violation of natural justice against the cricketer and quashed the single bench order which was in Sreesanth’s favour.
In its appeal, the BCCI had said the decision to ban the cricketer was taken based on the evidence against him.
The single-judge bench had on August 7 last year lifted the life-ban imposed on Sreesanth by the BCCI and also set aside all proceedings against him initiated by the board.
All the 36 accused in the spot-fixing case, including Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila, were let off by a Patiala House court in July, 2015.
The BCCI had however refused to alter its disciplinary decision even after the verdict.
