The working committee meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) was adjourned sine die on Friday over the lack of “legal clarity” on the presence of the former president N. Srinivasan.
BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said the opinion of the Supreme Court would be sought on whether Mr. Srinivasan could represent the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association at the meetings of the BCCI.
As the last working committee meet, it was set to announce the date and venue of the next AGM and had 14 items on the agenda.
The Board office-bearers tentatively set September 27 as the date for the AGM while agreeing on Kolkata as the venue, but the final stamp of approval will be given only when the working committee meeting is officially held.
According to an important Board functionary and the Indian Premier League chairman Rajeev Shukla, Mr. Srinivasan cited a letter obtained from a retired Supreme Court judge B.N. Srikrishna which termed him eligible to attend the meeting as the TNCA representative.
“It was on this point that our legal experts advised us to get a clarification on from the Supreme Court: whether Mr. Srinivasan can or cannot attend the meeting,” Mr. Shukla said after the meeting.
According to the BCCI officials, the meeting failed to take off on the issue whether the presence of Mr. Srinivasan would bring any conflict of interest.
To seek SC’s opinion
The chairman of the meeting and the present BCCI president, Jagmohan Dalmiya, taking the opinion of the Board’s legal adviser U.N. Banerjee, decided to adjourn the meeting and seek the opinion of the country’s apex court which had instituted a committee headed by former chief justice R.M. Lodha to clean up the game following the IPL spot-fixing scandal.
