JULY 31- In what appears to be a major setback to the former BCCI chief N Srinivasan, the two-member probe panel set up by the governing body to investigate the IPL spot-fixing scandal has been declared illegal and unconstitutional by the Bombay High Court.
The court has ordered the Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) to set up a new probe panel to re-investigate the spot-fixing case.
The report submitted by the two-member probe panel, comprised of fromer judges Jayaram Chouta and R Balasubramanian, had given clean chit to Chennai Super Kings (CSK) team principal Gurunath Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra, among others, was also thus rejected by the high court.
The high court gave the judgement while hearing a PIL filed by the Bihar Cricket Association secretary Aditya Verma. It has now asked for a fresh probe into the IPL betting scandal as the high court observed that there was disparity in the evidence collected by the BCCI probe panel.
CSK owner N Srinivasan, who had stepped aside as the BCCI president in June following IPL betting allegations against Meiyappan, was touted to return back into the governing body after the probe panel’s report.
The BCCI might move Supreme Court against the Bombay HC order scrapping its probe report on IPL betting scandal.
INDIA TODAY
