Board Of Control For Cricket In India Versus Cricket Association Of Bihar & ORS.

[2017] I S.C.R. 544 BOARD OF CONTROL FOR CRICKET IN INDIA v.

CRICKET ASSOCIATION OF BIHAR & ORS.

(Civil Appeal No. 4235 of2014) Wiih · (Civil Appeal No. 4236 of2014) Wiih (CivilAppealNo. Il55of2014) c JANUARY 03, 20 I 7 [T. S. THAKUR, CJI, A.M. KHANWILKAR AND DR. D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, JJ.] BCCJ matter:

Appointment as members of the committee of administrators - Nomination of names for, in terms of the order dated January 02, 2017 passed by this Court - In place of Mr. Fali S. Nariman, senior counsel, Mr. Anil B. Divan, senior counsel, Jo assist the Court and recommend suitable names for appointment as members of the committee of administrators in consultation with the amicus, Mr. Gopal Subramaniam - Further modification/correction of clause 25(i)(f) of the said order - Clause 25(i)(f) to be read as 'has been an Office Bearer of the BCCI or a State Association for a cumulative period of 9 years'.

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION '. Civil Appeai No. 4235 of2014.

From the Judgment and Order dated 30.07.2013 of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay in PIL No, 55 of 2013. WITH Civil Appeal Nos. 4236 of2014 and 1155 of2015 Maninder Singh, ASG, Gopal Subramanium, (AC), Kap ii Sibal, Arbind Dattar, Pramod Swarup, Sr. Advs., Santosh Krislman, Ankut · . Kashyap, Raghav Chadha, Pavan Bhushan, Ms. Radlia Rangaswamy, Ms. Raajeet.a Rohatgi, Abhilll\v Mukerji, Ameet Singh, Ms. Pareeria

BOARD OF CONTROL FOR CRICKET IN INDIA v. CRICKET ASSOCIATION OF BIHAR Swarup, Praveen Swarup, Ms. Sushma Venna, Sahil, V.K. Biju, Ms. Ria Sachthey, Amit A. Pai, Senthil Jagadeesan, Nirnimesh Dube, Yikas Mehta, M. Yogesh Kanna, Ms. Nithya, Ravindra Bana, R. Balasubramanian, Prabhas Bajaj, Akshay Amritanshu, Ms. Aarti Shanna, Ananya Mishra, Raj Bahadur, 1\1. K. Maroria, Amal Chitale, Ms. Pragya Baghel, Ms. Samten Dama, Nirnimesh Dube, Gagan Gupta, Ms. Rashmi Singh, Ms. Manju Sharma, Venkita Subramoniam T. R., Gaurav Sharma, AS. Bhasme, Ms. Sonia Mathur, Mrs. Lalita Kaushik, Shree Pal Singh, E.C. Agrawala, Raghavendra S. Srivastava, Anish R. Shah, Mukesh Kumar Maroria, Chi rag M. Shroff, Shreekant N. Terdal, Praveen Swarup, Ms. Liz Mathew, Anshuman Ashok, Ms. Kamakshi S. c Mehlwal, Advs. for the appearing parties.

The following Order of the Court was delivered

ORDER

By our order pronounced on 2"' January, 20.17 we had requested learned amicus curiae, Mr. Gopal Subramaniam, and Mr. Fali S. Nariman, learned senior counsel to assist us in nominating the members of the committee of administrators to be appointed in terms of the said order. Although Mr. Nariman had tentatively agreed to do the needful, he today. submits that he may have an embarrassment in accepting the assignment on account of the fact that he had been in the year 2009 retained on behalf of th.e BCCI. We quite appreciate the difficulty expressed by Mr. Nariman and accordingly discharge him of the role assigned to him. In 11is place, we request Mr. Anil B. Divan, learned senior counsel, to assist the Court and to recommend suitable names for appointment as members of the committee of administrators in consultation with the amicus, Mr.'Gopal Subramaniam.

Mr. Gopal Subramaniarn also draws our attention to an inadvertent error in our Order, clause 25(i)(f) whereof shall now stand modified/ corrected to read as under:

"25(i)(f) Has been an Office Bearer of the BCCI or a State Association for a cumulative period of9 years" Nidhi Jain ~1odification in earlier order.