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  • SC stays Madras HC order on BCCI office bearers

    SC stays Madras HC order on BCCI office bearers

    NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board can function as usual as the Supreme Court today stayed a Madras High Court order restraining office-bearers from taking over the board.

    But the apex board also kept cricket board’s past chief Jagmohan Dalmiya on the back foot by restraining him from becoming the board’s patron-in-chief.

    A bench, comprising Justices N Santosh Hegde and SB Sinha, felt that prima facie the high court did not act properly by passing the order restraining the newly elected board while entertaining a review petition filed by Netaji Cricket Club (NCC), the petitioner before the high court, agencies reported today.

    The Bench noticed skeletons tumbling out of the cupboards as NCC pointed out serious irregularities in the recent elections of the Board and observed that “if we are satisfied, we may order holding of fresh elections for the board.”

    After hearing the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA), NCC and DC Agashe, representing the Maharashtra Cricket Association, the bench fixed 26 October for final hearing on the petitions and passed an interim direction staying the Madras High Court order.

    Taking into account alleged irregularities in the election of Ranbir Singh Mahendra as the board president and the apprehension that Dalmiya would become patron-in-chief of the board, the Bench said that “in the meanwhile, Dalmiya is restrained from getting elected/appointed as the patron-in-chief.”

    The BCCI had filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court on Saturday challenging a Madras HC order restraining newly-elected board officials from functioning and the appointment of Supreme Court judge S Mohan as its interim administrator.

    The BCCI in its SLP had contended that if the high court order was implemented, it would bring Indian cricket to a standstill as even selection of the Indian team for the India-Australia series would not be possible.

    Meanwhile, Justice Mohan filed a report today in the Madras High Court regarding the “treatment meted out to him” when he had gone to the BCCI office in Mumbai to take charge on Saturday. It may be recalled that when Justice Mohan reached the office on Saturday, he was greeted by a locked door.

    “The matter is confidential. But I have filed a factual report,” the Press Trust of India filed from Chennai quoted Justice Mohan as saying.

  • Madras HC restrains BCCI office-bearers from functioning

    Madras HC restrains BCCI office-bearers from functioning

    MUMBAI: Talk about strange ironies. A little over a week after he was turned away, at the door as it were, from overseeing the elections to decide new office-bearers of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the Madras High Court has put retired Supreme Court judge S Mohan in charge of the richest cricket board in the world.

    In an interim order passed today, a division bench of the Madras High Court has restrained the newly-elected office-bearers of the Board of Control for Cricket in India from functioning and appointed retired Supreme Court justice S Mohan as interim administrator. Subject to him agreeing to the appointment of course.

    It needs recalling that a single judge bench of the Madras High Court had on 28 September appointed justice Mohan to conduct the elections in accordance with BCCI rules. This appointment was stayed by a division bench of the Madras HC the next day (the same day the BCCI elections were held).

    The division bench issued its order today on a review petition filed by Chennai-based Netaji Cricket Club (NCC) that had sought to set aside the election of BCCI office bearers.

    The club also wanted the newly elected members to be restrained from functioning and an interim administrator appointed to run the Board’s affairs.

    The club contended it was aggrieved by a division bench order of 29 September, setting aside the single judge’s order a day earlier appointing justice Mohan as commissioner to conduct the BCCI election.

    The bench questioned the manner in which BCCI elections were held last week at Kolkata, reports the Press trust of India.

    “Prima Facie, we feel that an undertaking given before the court, pertaining to the conduct of the election, has been violated. We are satisfied there is a prima facie case for granting interim orders,” the Bench has been quoted by PTI as saying.

    The judges also granted leave to chairman of the Maharashtra Cricket Association Dyaneshwar Agashe to file a review application.

    On Thursday, Agashe had sought leave of the court to file a review application, similar to that filed by the Club.

    It was after justice Mohan was prevented from conducting the BCCI election that board supremo took charge of the poll process.

    In the end it came right down to the wire with Maharashtra’s political heavyweight and Unionh agriculture minister Sharad Pawar tied at 15 votes with Dalmiya’s nominee Ranbir Singh Mahendra. It was Dalmiya’s casting vote that swung the poll in Mahendra’s favour.