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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

IPL Spot-fixing: BCCI Probe Panel Illegal, Bombay HC says Tuesday July 30,2013

   In a severe blow to BCCI and its president-in-exile N Srinivasan, the Bombay high court on Tuesday held as "illegal and unconstitutional" the two-member probe panel set up by it to look into spot-fixing and betting charges in the IPL tournament.


The high court order comes just two days after the probe panel submitted its report on July 28 giving a clean chit to Srinivasan, his son-in-law and owner of CSK Team Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra, owner of Rajasthan Royals and husband of actress Shilpa Shetty
 

A Division Bench of Justices S.J. Vazifdar and M.S. Sonak was hearing a public interest litigation filed by the Cricket Association of Bihar and its secretary Aditya Verma challenging the constitution of the two-member commission, set up by the BCCI and IPL Governing Council to probe allegations of betting and spot-fixing.

The Bench, while allowing the PIL, said the constitution of the probe panel was “illegal and unconstitutional”. 

The report submitted by the two-member probe panel, comprised of fromer judges Jayaram Chouta and R Balasubramanian, had given clean chit to Chennai Super Kings (CSK) team principal Gurunath Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra, among others, was also thus rejected by the Bombay HC
   

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