Gurunath Meiyappan, Raj Kundra guilty of betting in IPL, says SC

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Jan 22, 2015: The Supreme Court bench is currently reading out a 130-page judgment in the IPL spot-fixing and betting case.

On December 17, the apex court bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla had reserved the verdict after senior counsel C.A Sundaram for the BCCI, Kapil Sibal for N. Srinivasan, Nalini Chidambaram for the CAB, and Rajeev Dhavan for former BCCI president I.S. Bindra had concluded their arguments.

Earlier, the petitioner Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB) had sought the ouster of Srinivasan from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on the grounds that he was placed in a "conflict of interest" situation on account of his duties as the head of the apex cricketing body of the country and his interest as owner of CSK.

Srinivasan is the vice-chairman and managing director of India Cements Limited that owns IPL franchisee Chennai Super Kings.

The petitioner had also sought the termination of CSK following the indictment of Srinivasan’s son-in-law and team official Gurunath Meiyappan for betting in the IPL 2013.

The CAB had also challenged the amendment to the BCCI Rule 6.2.4 that permitted Srinivasan to have IPL franchisee CSK without attracting the provision of "conflict of interest".

Rule 6.2.4 of the BCCI constitution prohibits the office-bearers of the apex cricketing body from having any direct or indirect commercial interest in the cricketing events organised by it. The rule on the conflict of interest was amended Sep 27, 2008, by which the IPL and Champions League Twenty20 were excluded from its ambit.

 

Courtesy: Zeenews