IPL - Lalit Modi corruption case: Board of Control for Cricket in India calls Special General Meeting
Taking its corruption probe to the next level, the Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750
(BCCI) has called a Special General Meeting (SGM) tomorrow to reconstitute the disciplinary panel which is investigating corruption allegations against former Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi.
BCCI secretary http://www.senore.com/Cricket/S-Srinivasan-c87679 explained that the GSM was being convened to discuss “the technical point raised by Lalit Modi’s counsel” and insisted it was “a minor thing.”
This technical point was the objection raised last month by Modi’s counsel, Mehmood Abdi, who said that the BCCI’s disciplinary panel was not under the mandate of the BCCI General Body.
"We are in a peculiar situation as of today. As per 1(Q) of BCCI by-laws various committees have to be freshly constituted. In its AGM [Annual General Meeting], they did not form a fresh disciplinary committee," Abdi said on November
22. "As for us, therefore, there is no disciplinary committee in existence as this panel does not enjoy the mandate of the GBM as required by BCCI constitution. There was no reconstitution, re-nomination or formation of the disciplinary body.”
Besides airing this objection on the media on behalf of Modi, Abdi also presented his case to the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 High Court, which did not sustain the objection. Modi has now taken the issue to the Supreme Court, which will begin its hearing
by January.
But this technical issue is not the only concern Modi has expressed regarding the BCCI’s probe. The three-member disciplinary panel was comprised of Arun Jaitley, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Chirayu Amin. Modi’s camp has consistently
decried the inclusion of Amin and Jaitley on the panel. Both were IPL Governing Council members when it was headed by Modi, and the former chairman cites this as reason enough for bias.
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