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Toe Lodha line, SC tells BCCI
The Supreme Court on Thursday suggested to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that it accept all the recommendations of the Justice Lodha Committee relating to structural reforms in the governing body.
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday suggested to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that it accept all the recommendations of the Justice Lodha Committee relating to structural reforms in the governing body.
The apex court bench of Justice TS Thakur and Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla told BCCI that the Justice Lodha Committee has given a ‘very viable rational solutions. You take a realistic view of the matter and act according to the recommendations’.
Impressing upon senior counsel Shekhar Naphade, appearing for BCCI, the significance of the report, the court said: “The report deserves respect as it is given by the most competent and well-meaning members of the legal fraternity.”
“It may affect some people who are holding positions but any transition has to have its problems,” the court said as Naphade sought to project the difficulties that the apex cricketing body was encountering with the recommendations of the Lodha Committee.
“It involves sweeping changes. We are not taking an obstructionist view. There are technical and legal problems. The legal committee (of BCCI) will take a call on the recommendations, which in turn will be considered by the Board and take a final decision,” Naphade told the court pointing out that BCCI was registered as a society in Tamil Nadu and had to go by its by-laws.
Not missing on an apparent reservations on the part of BCCI in going along with the recommendations of the Lodha Committee, the court made it clear that it would not appreciate any suitabile assessment of the same (recommendations) by the cricketing body.
“We will say that we accept the recommendations and ask the Justice Lodha Committee to push forward its (recommendations) for its implementation help and steer them (BCCI) in the implementation of the recommendations and also monitor it,” Chief Justice Thakur said. Thakur also made it clear that there could not be any "ifs and buts" in going along with the recommendations for structural reforms in BCCI.
