SC Declines to Accept Petition to Stop Anurag Thakur Contesting BCCI Elections
Anurag Thakur is reportedly eyeing the BCCI president's chair after Shashank Manohar resigned from the position to take up an ICC role
Highlights
-
Court refuses to stop Anurag Thakur from contesting BCCI elections
-
Anurag Thakur is reportedly the BCCI president's chair
-
The BCCI elections are scheduled on Sunday
Anurag Thakur's aspiration to become Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president received a boost after the Supreme Court declined to entertain a petition to stop the current BCCI secretary from contesting the Board elections scheduled on Sunday.
The petition was filed by Cricket Association of Bihar, the organisation which had initiated the 2013 IPL match-fixing case that finally led to the suspension of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals from the league for two seasons.
The Supreme Court said the Bench hearing the IPL corruption case and discussing the Lodha panel report can hear the petition after the summer vacation.
Bihar's petition says as per Lodha panel, charge-sheeted persons can't contest BCCI polls. The petition wanted either the BCCI polls be stayed or Thakur restrained from contesting
The Supreme Court said, "We can't hear the matter as it is being heard by another Bench."
Thakur is reportedly aspiring to succeed Shashank Manohar as BCCI president. Manohar resigned as Board chief to take up the role of International Cricket Council's first independent chairman earlier this month.
(With inputs from A. Vaidyanathan)