New Delhi, Nov 27: The Supreme Court on Thursday observed Chennai Super Kings (CSK), an IPL team owned by suspended BCCI chief N Srinivasan's company India Cements, should be suspended without "further enquiry".
The court sought to know the share-holding pattern in India Cements to find out the who "really controlled" CSK. Srinivasan, last week, had faced the court's displeasure over conflict of interest for owning an IPL team while remaining at the helm of the cricket establishment.
“You (Srinivasan) are only assuming that you have been given a clean chit. Don’t go by the Mudgal panel conclusion alone. The question is whether you should at all be serving the BCCI,” the bench of justices TS Thakur and FMI Kalifullah said last week.
“Conflict of interest is a serious issue. IPL seems to be a mutually cooperative benefit society between BCCI and IPL teams.”
The top court had asked Srinivasan to step aside as BCCI chief till the justice Mukul Mudgal panel completed its probe into the match-fixing and betting scandal during the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket carnival’s sixth edition.
Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, identified by the inquiry committee as a team principal for CSK franchise, is accused of betting on IPL games.
CSK, led by India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, is owned by the India Cements company of which Srinivasan is the managing director and has won the seven-year-old IPL tournament twice.
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