Just minutes before Supreme Court was to announce the appointment of administrators to run the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the Delhi High Court on Monday hit appointed Justice Vikramajit Sen as administrator of the Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA).

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The former Supreme Court judge, Justice Sen, has been given the task to amend the Articles of Association of the DDCA in order to incorporate SC orders of July 18 — Justice RM Lodha reforms — by incorporating age and tenure clause, reconstitution of Sports Committee and affiliated units etc.

Justice Sen will take over from Justice Mukul Mudgal, who was overseeing the holding of matches at the Feroze Shah Kotla stadium for last one year. He was also assigned the task of overseeing the functioning of the DDCA against the backdrop of alleged irregularities in the cricketing body's operations.

If this was not enough, the HC bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Deepa Sharma also directed the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) to be on board and be an external auditor to audit DDCA accounts from 2012 to 2015.

It has been alleged by former cricketers led by Bishan Singh Bedi that "large scale financial irregularities took place during this particular period".

After the HC order, former India cricketer Surinder Khanna said, "All the skeletons will now come out in open. As no internal audit was conducted here by the BCCI, no one knew the scale of financial bungling, like many other states, where it was revealed how cricket money was misused over many years.

"Take my words, DDCA is the most corrupt cricket association in India."

Delhi HC had reserved the order in September last year on the plea of DDCA for an occupancy certificate from South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to hold matches at the Kotla.

HC then observed that granting permission for matches would be a "tricky" affair as the stadium's RP Mehra block was allegedly unauthorised as it was in the vicinity of a protected monument.

Govt objects to NE votes

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Railways, Services and Universities, submitted to the Supreme Court that appointment of an administrators would "disturb the electoral college of the BCCI and thus he should be heard on this matter first".

AG also objected to the votes given to Nagaland, Mizoram and other North Eastern states on the grounds that "no cricket is played there". "On the other hand, I have been propagating cricket for last 70 years on all India basis and should be given two votes if votes to non-cricket playing states are being given," AG submitted.

This was also contested by government counsel earlier and the former SC bench rejected this theory on the basis that "BCCI is selecting Team India and not for selective states".