SC defers hearing on BCCI probe panel matter for two weeks

The Supreme Court today deferred for two weeks hearing on petitions relating to controversy over the appointment of panel to probe the IPL spot-fixing scam in which BCCI has challenged the Bombay High Court order holding as illegal board's two-member committee.
When the matter came up at the fag end of the day, a bench comprising justices A K Patnaik and J S Khehar said the petitions will be listed after two weeks.
The BCCI counsel requested for a date for hearing but the bench said it cannot give a fixed date.
The bench on August 30 had also heard the petition filed by Aditya Verma, Secretary, Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB) challenging High court order refusing to appoint a fresh committee to probe IPL spot fixing scam.

It had issued notices to the BCCI, N Srinivasan, his company India Cements which owns IPL team Chennai Super Kings, and Rajasthan Royals on his plea.
The CAB's petition was clubbed with the petition of BCCI which had challenged the judgement declaring as illegal the Indian cricket board's two-member probe panel set up to look into spot-fixing and betting charges in the IPL tournament.

The CAB pleaded that the High Court which declared the panel of two judges unconstitutional should have appointed a fresh panel to look into the issue.
The cross appeals filed by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and CAB was listed for hearing yesterday and today but could not be heard.

The apex court had earlier on August 7 refused to grant interim stay on High Court verdict, derailing the plan of Srinivasan to return as chief of BCCI.
He had stepped aside from discharging his duties as BCCI President in the light of spot fixing and betting scandal which allegedly involved his son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings team's former principal Gurunath Meiyappan.
The high court order had come on July 30 just two days after the panel, comprising two former judges of the Madras High Court Justices T Jayarama Chouta and R Balasubramanian, submitted its report giving a clean chit to all those against whom the probe was conducted.