Lodha reforms: SC likely to give final order on BCCI, Thakur

TIL Desk Sports/ The Supreme Court on Monday is likely to give the final order on the implementations of Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha Committee’s recommendation in the Board of Control for Cricket in India including removal of the current office bearers, while the perjury charges against BCCI chief Anurag Thakur could also come up for hearing.

The Lodha Committee had asked for the removal of the present set of BCCI office-bearers, to be replaced by a group of independent administrators. In its third status report submitted on November 14, the committee asked for the disqualification of office-bearers of the BCCI and all state associations, who become ineligible as per the apex court’s July 18 order, and the appointment of former Union home secretary G K Pillai as “observer”.

Thakur also faces a key hearing after the Supreme Court observed on December 15 that the BCCI chief prima facie appears to have committed matter of perjury in relation to demanding an intervention via a letter from the International Cricket Council in order to sidestep the implementation of the Lodha recommendations.