High Court refuses relief to Modi against BCCI

Published Thu, Jul 15 10 04:52 PM

Mumbai, Jul 15 (PTI) The Bombay High Court today refused to grant any relief to suspended IPL Chairman Lalit Modi ahead of the Cricket Board''s Disciplinary Committee meeting and left the issue of reconstituting the panel on the members. The division bench of Justices B H Marlapalle and Roshan Dalvi dismissed Modi''s plea seeking reconstitution of the three-member disciplinary panel and cleared the decks for the disciplinary proceedings against him to commence. The committee, comprising interim IPL Chairman Chirayu Amin, Arun Jaitley and Jyotiraditya Scindia - has summoned Modi to appear before it here tomorrow. However, the court also indicated that the final finding can be challenged by Modi and he can even raise the issue of constitution of the committee at that point. Modi''s objection to the committee was that it would be biased against him and he had sought that the panel be made up of independent persons, preferably retired supreme court judges. But the division bench said that as per the BCCI rules, "Disciplinary committee has limited powers....it is only required to inquire into charges and submit the final report to the board. The board is the final decision-making body." Modi had objected to Amin and Jaitley, two members of the committee, to remain on the panel. (More) PTI KRK SSR DK MRM

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