Supreme Court guns for Srinivasan, tells BCCI to disqualify Chennai Super Kings

New Delhi: The walls set up to shield International Cricket Council chief Narayanswami Srinivasan continue to crumble under the ever-sharpening gaze of a Supreme Court special bench.

On Thursday, the court brought to front and centre the conflict of interest issue involving the Indian cricket board’s president-in exile and vice-chairman of India Cements, which owns Chennai Super Kings, and went as far as asking whether or not the IPL franchise should be disqualified if this was indeed proven to be the case.

The special bench of Justices T.S. Thakur and F.M.I. Kalifullah also told counsel for BCCI and Mr Srinivasan — Aryama Sunderam and Kapil Sibal respectively — that the BCCI annual general meeting due on December 17 should go ahead, minus the individuals named in the Mudgal Commission report on the Indian Premier League 2013 corruption case.

The court said that the BCCI must put an end to all its controversies and move to conduct the election because “the life of the BCCI board is over”. Any decision around the findings of the Mudgal probe “must be taken by a board which is legitimately in place,” the judges added.