BCCI not to release funds to State units averse to reforms: SC

New Delhi, Oct 7:
Cracking the whip on BCCI, Supreme Court today slammed its President Anurag Thakur and veteran administrator Ratnakar Shetty for “undermining” the Lodha committee’s directions and asked it to stop disbursing funds to state units till they abided by the recommendations on reforms in “letter and spirit”.
Noting its “defiant and obstructionist” attitude, the apex court warned the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) against “precipitating” the issue and directed Thakur to explain by filing “personal affidavit” on the allegation “whether he had asked the CEO of the ICC to state that the appointment of Justice R M Lodha Committee was tantamount to government interference in the working of the BCCI”.
Shetty, a long-standing cricket administrator and General Manager (Admin and Game development) at BCCI, was also directed by the top court to come clean by placing on record a copy of the authorisation/resolution passed by the BCCI on the basis of which he has filed the affidavit supporting the response of the BCCI to the status report.
Both Thakur and Shetty were directed by the apex court to file separate affidavits within 10 days before the matter is taken up for further hearing on October 17. (PTI)

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