The company said that the Lodha Committee order goes against the fundamental principles of natural justice
Chennai Super Kings
CHENNAI: After much deliberation, Chennai Super Kings have appealed against the Lodha Committee’s decision in the Madras High Court. The affidavit has sought a stay on the probe panel’s decision to suspend the two-time champions for two years. India Cements Ltd. had made the IPL team a subsidiary, CSK Cricket Ltd., with vice chairman N. Srinivasan off-loading all his shares.
In the affidavit, the company said that the Lodha Committee order goes against the fundamental principles of natural justice. “Fair hearing, non-compliance of which is evident from a finding of the committee that the only task left to the committee was imposition of appropriate punishment on the franchise without going into the charges or the offence committed. …the refusal of Justic Lodha Commission to enter into the dispute of whether the Franchise (CSK), its owner India Cements Ltd, were guilty of violating Clause 4.1.1 of the IPL operational rules has led to grave miscarrige of justice,” it added.
The company said “neither management of CSK nor any CSK player was found guilty of betting or match fixing. Gurunath Meyyappan never had shares in India Cements nor was he in the management of the company.”
“If suspended, players such as M.S. Dhoni, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo would be certainly contracted to play for any other IPL teams for the forthcoming season and CSK would lose their services, perhaps for ever and other star players of CSK would also be picked by other franchises at various price points,” the plea added.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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