The committee had given clean chit to Srinivasan, his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan and others from the charges. BCCI had sought immediate stay of the high court order submitting that the committee was constituted according to rules of the cricket board and was legal.
The said committee was set up by BCCI and IPL governing council after spot-fixing and betting scandal erupted during the IPL. After the committee was constituted, Srinivasan went into exile and former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya took over as interim president. After clean chit from the committee, Srinivasan was all set to take over the reigns of the BCCI, but after two days the high court declared the committee illegal and unconstitutional.
A bench, however, agreed to hear the BCCI petition. BCCI has challenged the order. The bench asked Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB) to file its response on BCCI petition.
Two former judges of the Madras high court were the members of the committee, which had gone into the charges against India Cements Ltd, owners of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, franchise’s former Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra, co-owner of Rajasthan Royals franchise.