After a lot of controversy the BCCI chief has been removed by the court.
The Supreme Court today ordered the removal of Anurag Thakur as chief of India’s cricket board (BCCI), saying all board officials who had not fallen in line with the reforms recommended by the Lodha Committee must go. The Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice T.S. Thakur, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud has also ordered the sacking of BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke.
The court said all Lodha recommendations must be implemented and this means that all cricket administrators over 70 years old will have to resign. The verdict, in what has come to be known as BCCI versus the Lodha Committee face-off, came after months of a bitter court battle.
The Lodha Committee, appointed by the Supreme Court after a betting scandal in the Indian Premier League, has recommended sweeping changes in the way the board is run and led and had complained that the BCCI or Board of Control for Cricket in India was refusing to implement them.
The judges have also issued a contempt notice to Anurag Thakur, who is a BJP lawmaker. At its last hearing two weeks ago, the court has said Mr Thakur seemed to have “committed perjury” after it was informed that he had made a false statement on asking the International Cricket Council or ICC to clarify whether a recommendation made by the Lodha committee amounted to interference in the board’s running.
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