IPL Scam: Gavaskar, Ganguly in BCCI's List of People With Conflict of Interest Submitted to Supreme Court
Sunil Gavaskar, Sourav Ganguly and current Team India director Ravi Shastri have been named by the BCCI in a list of people with conflict of interest submitted to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India named former India captains Sunil Gavaskar, Sourav Ganguly, Ravi Shastri and Krishnamachari Srikkanth besides Lalchand Rajput and Venkatesh Prasad in a list of people with conflict of interest submitted to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday had again slammed the BCCI for involving officials and players with "conflict of interest." A special bench asked the board to give a list of administrators and players having commercial interest in Indian Premier League and Champions League T20. (Heavens Won't Fall if Administrators Don't Own Teams: Supreme Court to BCCI)
"For the purity of the game, if conflict of interest has to go, it will go. Heavens will not fall if administrators don't own teams. If the team goes, projects will not fall," the judges said. "Apart from CSK, is there any other team which is run by an administrator and why? Give us a list of all contracts which will fall because of striking down Rule 6.2.4," the court said. (Supreme Court Slams Sundar Raman for Inaction)
The judges have asked BCCI to justify the controversial 6.2.4 clause that allowed BCCI officials to wear multiple hats and have commercial interest in IPL and CLT20. On the basis of this (2008) amended clause, then BCCI chief N. Srinivasan's company India Cements were allowed to own an IPL franchise, Chennai Super Kings.
Rule 6.2.4 of IPL categorically prohibits BCCI officials from having direct or commercial interests in events organized by the Board
In a bid to justify former BCCI president Srinivasan's alleged conflict of interest, his counsel Kapil Sibal had told a two-judge Supreme Court Bench on December 2 that the likes of Gavaskar, Shastri and Ganguly too have held positions in both BCCI and the Indian Premier League. Sibal had then also named Anil Kumble, Rajput, Srikkanth and liquor baron Vijay Mallya, whose company United Breweries owns Royal Challengers Bangalore.