
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, in a written order issued Thursday, appointed Lt Gen Ravi Thodge as the third member of the Committee of Administrators constituted to oversee the functioning of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
The decision was made by a two-judge Bench of Justice SA Bobde and AM Sapre in the Supreme Court after the newly appointed Amicus Curiae (friend of the court) and former Additional Solicitor General (ASG) PS Narasimha provided a list of six former SC judges in a sealed envelope, with the names proposed by the CoA for the role of Ombudsman.
The other members of the CoA are former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai and former India women’s captain Diana Edulji.
Edulji was present in court with her lawyer Amit Sibal. Before the judges stepped into the court, Edulji had instructed Sibal and Amicus Narasimha that two issues should be discussed on priority basis — one was appointment of Ombudsman (the apex court Thursday named former Supreme Court judge DK Jain to the position) and second being the necessity for a third member in the CoA to break the deadlock that exists with only two members.
Some state associations like those from Maharashtra and Kerala put forth their case that they have not got any of their allocated funds from the BCCI and CoA in spite of adopting the new BCCI constitution, Cricketnext reports.
Lawyer Parag Tripathi argued for CoA that they have been paying the ‘vendors’ directly for the smooth conduct of matches. “If the associations adopt the new constitution completely then BCCI elections can be held and all of these problems will be over,” Tripathi argued.
The Bench said, “Once a third member is in, the reconstituted CoA may consult the amicus curiae on the release of funds to state associations. Amicus may advise accordingly.”
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