OCA moves SC on Lodha panel recomendations on reforms in BCCI

OCA moves SC on Lodha panel recomendations on reforms in BCCI

PTIUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 05:38 PM IST
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New Delhi: Orissa Cricket Association today moved the Supreme Court seeking to be impleaded in the ongoing hearing related to implementation of the recomendations made by Justice R M Lodha panel which has suggested massive restructuring of country’s apex cricket body BCCI.

The plea mentioned before a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur said there are problems in implementing the recommendations of the panel as the entire structure of the board would undergo a change.

The bench agreed with the contentions and allowed Orissa Cricket Association (OCA) to file its plea. The apex court had on February 4 given a stern message to Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) asking it to “fall in line” with the recommendations of Justice Lodha Committee.

The court had said the recommendations are “straight, rational and understandable” and “deserve respect” and “there is no reason to disagree with the committee” which has the most “illuminated and respected members of the legal community”.

Cricket Association of Bihar’s secretary Aditya Verma has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking implementation of Lodha panel recomendation in BCCI. The matter will come up for hearing on March 3.

The apex court-appointed Lodha Committee on January 4 recommended sweeping reforms and an administrative shake-up for the troubled BCCI by suggesting that ministers be barred from occupying positions, a cap put on the age and tenure of the office-bearers and legalisation of betting.

In a series of drastic recommendations, the three-member panel, also comprisiing formers apex court judges Ashok Bhan and R V Raveendran suggested that one unit should represent only one state, while taking away the voting rights of institutional and city-based units.

It suggested restructuring of the BCCI’s administrative set-up, proposing the position of a CEO to run daily affairs of the Board accountable to a nine-member apex council. Among the most sensational suggestions by the Lodha panel was the one on legalising betting. It felt that the move would help curb corruption in the game and recommended that except for players and officials, people should be allowed to place bets on registered websites.

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