BCCI appoints Markandey Katju to interact with Lodha Committe

TIL Desk Sports/The BCCI appointed former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju as the head of a four-member legal panel to help the Board understand the implications of the Justice Lodha Committee reforms, which have been made mandatory by the apex court. In a meeting of its all-powerful working committee, the BCCI decided to make Katju the “single point interface” for the Board “to interact with the Justice Lodha Committee as well advise and guide” the world’s richest cricketing body.

Apart from Katju, another legal luminary in the panel will be Abhinav Mukherjee. Justice Katju has been a judge in the Supreme Court from 2006 to 2011 apart from being the chairman of Press Council of India. He was also a former chief justice of Delhi High Court, Madras High Court and acting chief justice of Allahabad High Court.

“The BCCI wanted a legal luminary who could help us in understanding the implications also put forward our viewpoint in legal language to the esteemed panel. That is the reason, BCCI requested Justice Katju to head the panel,” a senior BCCI official in know of things told.