SC dismisses BCCI's review plea against Lodha panel recommendations

Supreme Court has dismissed the plea of BCCI to review its July 18 verdict directing the cricket body to implement Lodha panel recommendations for structural reforms in BCCI. A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice S A Bobde said they have examined the grounds urged in support of the prayer for review. 

The bench said, it found no error apparent on the face of the record to warrant recall of its order dated July 18, 2016. It said the review petitions are, accordingly, dismissed. The order was pronounced in the chambers on November 10 but was made public on the apex court website recently.

The Cricket Association of Bihar, through its secretary Aditya Kumar Verma on whose plea the apex court had decided to pass a slew of directions for massive restructuring of BCCI administration, has been opposing the Board. BCCI and cricket



association of different states filed a review petition asking the apex court to re-examine the issue. It had also pleaded that its plea for review be heard in open court. 

The apex court had on July 18 passed the order on the recommendations of Justice Lodha committee and ordered a comprehensive revamp of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, BCCI, over the next six months, to be overseen by the committee. It had also directed implementation of the contentious one state, one vote suggestion prohibiting those who were in the BCCI Governing body for many decades by prescribing a maximum of three terms, each of three years, with the caveat that there would a cooling-off period between two terms. The apex court-appointed Lodha Committee had on January 4 recommended sweeping reforms and an administrative shake-up in the troubled BCCI.