The Supreme Court today took a stern line as it barred the BCCI from disbursing funds to state cricket bodies until they file an affidavit stating their acceptance of the recommendations by the Lodha panel.
In addition, the apex court also directed the 13 state bodies, who have already received funds worth Rs 16.72 crore, to not use the money until an affidavit is filed by each of them.
Giving a 10-day window to BCCI to implement the new set of rules and regulations, SC postponed its ordered to October 17.
The apex court also asked the cricket body chief, Anurag Thakur, to file a personal affidavit on his communication with ICC on the Lodha panel recommendations.
Earlier, with BCCI declining to provide an undertaking by today that it will comply with the recommendations of the Lodha Panel on the board’s reforms, the SC was to pass an order today.
Angered over BCCI’s “defiant attitude”, the three-judge bench, led by chief justice TS Thakur, was forced to make a plea on Thursday for replacing the cricket body’s management with a panel of independent administrators and barring the funding of state cricket associations.
The Supreme Court had yesterday asked the BCCI to furnish an undertaking by tomorrow stating that it will unconditionally implement all recommendations of the Lodha panel.
However, the BCCI's counsel Kapil Sibal expressed the board’s inability to do so. It also refused to give an undertaking against disbursal of grant to state bodies.
