SC reserves order on probe panel
30 April 2014 5:50 AM IST
A bench of justice AK Patnaik and justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla reserved the order after it was told justice (retd) Mukul Mudgal has consented to head the panel to investigate these allegations.
When Srinivasan’s counsel Mukul Rohtagi contended that his position should be restored if the court was entrusting the investigation to an outside agency, the court, not inclined to budge from its position to have an independent investigation, asked: ‘Do you think till investigations are over he (Srinivasan) should stay (as the head of the cricketing body. Since BCCI itself is not probing (the allegations) then the management of the cricketing body should be restored with a rider that he (Srinivasan) will not interfere into the probe,’ he said.
As Rohtagi said there was no finding in the report against Srinivasan, Justice Patnaik said: ‘It is all in your interest and Srinivasan that we should not read it (allegation given to the court in sealed cover by Mudgal Committee) out in the open court. I have not spoken to the secretary general (of the apex court). What you say may not be entirely correct,’ he said as Rohtagi told the court that audio recording of the India skipper MS Dhoni, Srinivasan and IPL’s chief operating officer Sunder Raman’s interaction with Mudgal Inquiry Committee nowhere recorded their having described Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan as a ‘cricket enthusiast’. ‘To find out what you are saying is right or what the probe committee (has said) then we will have to go to the video room to see,’ justice Patnaik said. The court felt that the ongoing hearings could be postponed till September by which time, the probe panel will submit its findings.
When Srinivasan’s counsel Mukul Rohtagi contended that his position should be restored if the court was entrusting the investigation to an outside agency, the court, not inclined to budge from its position to have an independent investigation, asked: ‘Do you think till investigations are over he (Srinivasan) should stay (as the head of the cricketing body. Since BCCI itself is not probing (the allegations) then the management of the cricketing body should be restored with a rider that he (Srinivasan) will not interfere into the probe,’ he said.
As Rohtagi said there was no finding in the report against Srinivasan, Justice Patnaik said: ‘It is all in your interest and Srinivasan that we should not read it (allegation given to the court in sealed cover by Mudgal Committee) out in the open court. I have not spoken to the secretary general (of the apex court). What you say may not be entirely correct,’ he said as Rohtagi told the court that audio recording of the India skipper MS Dhoni, Srinivasan and IPL’s chief operating officer Sunder Raman’s interaction with Mudgal Inquiry Committee nowhere recorded their having described Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan as a ‘cricket enthusiast’. ‘To find out what you are saying is right or what the probe committee (has said) then we will have to go to the video room to see,’ justice Patnaik said. The court felt that the ongoing hearings could be postponed till September by which time, the probe panel will submit its findings.
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