The Supreme Court will hear the plea of many full member associations of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on the question of whether the July 18, 2016 orders are binding on all of them or just the sport body.
This is seen as yet another attempt of the former BCCI bosses, who are refusing to vacate their positions in the states, to somehow create hurdles in the implementation of Justice Lodha panel reforms being carried out by the committee of administrators (COA).
This will coincide with the compliance report to be filed by COA after deadline of March 1. All state units will have to furnish details of their office-bearers, managing committee, executive and the governing body has again been defied like many other times in the past.
"We're in process of finalising our compliance report. It should be ready in a day or so," a top BCCI official told DNA on Friday.
It has also been learnt that BCCI's legal firm Amarchand Mangaldas has been directed to submit compliance report by hand in the Court on or before Monday's hearing. Further, the BCCI counsel is likely to raise the issue of corruption in many states based on Deloitte's internal audit report carried out in 2015.
The Deloitte report revealed gross mismanagement in many state associations. The BCCI later stopped annual grants to member units but no further action was initiated by the then administrators.
"All those states whose names cropped up prominently for corruption in the audit report are now resisting the reforms. This is simple tactics to save themselves from facing the legal probe," said the official.
Bihar awaits justice
Another issue that needs COA's attention is to rope in all the remaining states like Bihar, Uttarakhand and north eastern states — Sikkim, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland — with full membership rights. However, no steps have been taken in this direction till date despite SC orders.
"The corruption issue of states units such as Hyderabad, Kerala and Goa are taking precedence over other issues. The only way to move forward is to request SC to make internal audit report public to nail these states and their bosses," said the source.
Former secretary Sanjay Patel and former president Anurag Thakur on different occasions (2014 & 2016) had submitted before the Court on how Bihar association (led by Lalu Prasad Yadav group) failed to submit the accounts of Rs 50 lakh given to Bihar Cricket Association in 2009. This led to the suspension of BCA in 2010.
The same BCA was again being recognised as associate member, without calling any affiliation committee meeting of BCCI, under Thakur's tenure in 2016.
"Deloitte conducted an audit of Bihar six months back and found out that equipment of Rs 1.5 crore worth, given by BCCI for Patna stadium, were found missing and no proper explanation was given regarding this," said a source.
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