Bench split on BCCI case

A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a split verdict on a petition challenging amendment in BCCI regulation to exclude IPL and T-20 tournaments from its perview and referred the matter to the Chief Justice for allocating it to a larger bench.

The petition,filed by former BCCI president A C Muthiah,had alleged that the amendment was brought to favour the cricket boards secretary N Srinivasan,owner of the Chennai Super Kings team.

While Justice Panchal dismissed the petition filed by Muthiah,challenging the validity of the amendment in clause 6.2.4,Justice Mishra allowed the petition holding that a BCCI officer-bearer cannot have stake in the IPL team.