Supreme Court to hear BCCI's plea on tenure of its office bearers on Tuesday

The Supreme Court on Monday said that it would hear the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) plea seeking the court's permission to amend its constitution concerning the tenure of its office bearers, including that of the President and Secretary, on September 13.

India's cricket governing body has sought to abolition the cooling-off period for its office bearers in its proposed amendment. The said amendment will allow President Sourav Ganguly and Secretary Jay Shah to continue in office despite them having completed six years at respective state cricket associations.

A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the BCCI, that it would take up the matter along with other matters related to board on Tuesday afternoon.


The court also asked senior advocate Maninder Singh, amicus curiae in the matter to collate all the intervention applications and place it before the court so that it can have a brief idea about the issues.

Petitioner Aditya Verma, who brought the matter before the top court, said that a lot of irregularities are taking place in Bihar Cricket Association and its constitution is being changed without the leave of the court.

Earlier, Mehta told the court that as per earlier orders, the constitution can only be amended with the leave of the court, and hence the cricket body has moved an application in this regard.

BCCI's plea seeks to amend its constitution concerning the tenure of its office bearers, including President Sourav Ganguly and Secretary Jay Shah, by doing away with the mandatory cooling-off period between tenures of office bearers across state cricket associations and the BCCI.

Earlier, the Justice R M Lodha-led committee had recommended reforms in the world-richest cricket governing body which have been accepted by the top court.

As per the BCCI constitution, anyone who had served two consecutive terms of three years each in the state cricket association or the BCCI have to go through a mandatory three-year cooling-off period.

While Ganguly was an office bearer in the Cricket Association of Bengal, Shah had served in the Gujarat Cricket Association.