By allowing Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) to go ahead with the scheduled elections, the Supreme Court on Friday clipped the wings of Vinod Rai-led Committee of Administrators (COA) and put the ball in state associations' court to better abide by the August 9, 2018 judgment or face consequences.
The latest decision came as a rap on COA's knuckle keeping in mind how Rai and company tried to disqualify most of the state association members by misinterpreting the SC orders in age and cooling off matters. For example, COA came up with orders that "if a person has completed nine years even as a working/managing/executive committee member in a state association, he/she cannot come back as an office-bearer or a councillor in the state body".
Further, it was declared that "somebody who has completed six years as a BCCI office-bearer and three years as a BCCI working committee member will have to hang up his cricket board administrative boots".
Soon, as many as 15 state associations went into a huddle via teleconference earlier this week and decided to take COA head-on for twisting the SC judgement and creating the confusion amongst the voters.
The bench comprising of Justice S.A. Bobde and L. Nageswara Rao ordered all the member associations to comply with the BCCI constitution. The court further noted that the disqualifications laid down in Clause 14 of the new constitution would be confined to office-bearers alone.
Apex court thus allowed the TNCA to conduct elections, but with a rider... "Let them do whatever they want to. Main point is that they (states) are indeed holding elections. If they don't conduct elections as per the SC orders (Aug. 9, 2018), 'court can undo the results or even send it to the civil court'," ruled the bench of Justice SA Bobde and L Nageswara Rao on Friday.
All this while, the state associations were seen helping the amicus curiae P.S. Narasimha. Amicus also submitted a list of non-compliant members which also had TNCA name in it.
The court further allowed the 21-day election notice period for holding elections to be "relaxed" on the discretion of the amicus, thus keeping COA away from muddling into this aspect also. In this regard, the Registrar of Co-operative Societies would comply with the instructions of the amicus curiae.
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