SC summons BCCI top brass for delay in acting on Lodha report

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court came down hard on the Board of Control for Cricket in India on Wednesday and ordered drafting of a new constitution so that the reforms suggested by its panel were carried out.

The court also issued showcause notices to the board’ s acting secretary Amitabh Choudha ry, treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary and acting president CK Khanna, asking them why the recommendations of the Lodha panel had not been implemented a year after the Supreme Court order. The three have to bein the court on September 19.

“A close scrutiny of applications (by state associations) reveal that under the guise of seeking recall( of the Lod ha panel recommendations), they are in fact challenging the principal judgment. This is clearly an abuse of the process of this honourable court,” Gopal Subramanium, who is assisting the court in the case, told the SC.