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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday accepted major recommendations of Justice R M Lodha panel on structural reforms in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
The SC on Monday agreed with the Lodha panel recommendation that "no minister or serving bureaucrat can be member of the BCCI board".
A bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice FMI Kalifulla rejected BCCI's objection against recommendations for one-state-one-vote and said that states like Maharashtra and Gujarat having more than one cricket associations will have voting rights on rotational basis.
It accepted the panel's recommendation that there should be a players' association in the BCCI and the funding of players' association accepted while leaving it to the Board to decide the extent of funding.
The bench also accepted the recommendation that one person should hold one post in cricket administration to avoid any conflict of interest and scrapping of all other administrative committees in the BCCI after CAG nominee comes in.
The SC also ordered that a CAG nominee will be part of the BCCI to keep track of its funds. The court also accepted the proposal that office-bearers in the BCCI should not be beyond the age of 70 years.
The court, however, left it to Parliament to decide whether functioning of BCCI can be brought under the RTI as recommended by the Lodha Panel and whether to legalise betting in cricket or not.
It also left it to the board to decide whether there is need for any changes in the existing agreement relating to broadcasting rights and whether a franchise member should be in the Board to avoid any conflict of interest.
The bench also requested the three-member panel, also comprising former apex court judges Ashok Bhan and R V Raveendran, to oversee the transition of administrative structure in BCCI which has to take place within six months.
