In a fresh blow to the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed BCCI's petition seeking review of the court verdict's on July 18 which had validated the Lodha Panel recommendations, reported ANI.
The Indian cricket body had submitted a petition to the SC to reconsider its July verdict where it had asked the BCCI to accept the majority of the Justice Lodha Committee's recommendations and had provided a time-frame of six months.
Earlier on Monday, the court had reserved its orders on the Justice Lodha panel's status report for appointment of new administrators after the Indian cricket body sought more time to implement the Lodha reforms.
In October, the court had barred the BCCI from releasing money to state associations unless they agreed to abide by the Justice Lodha Committee's recommendations. The judiciary made this decision while providing an interim order in the case to decide whether the Indian cricket body's top brass should be "superseded", as recommended by the Lodha panel.
BCCI president Anurag Thakur had also been asked to file a personal affidavit about whether he had asked for a letter of intervention from the chief of the International Cricket Council, David Richardson regarding the recommendations.
In response, the BCCI had argued that they were not against implementing reforms, but they faced technical impediments. The court however informed the Indian body that they would remove those impediments.
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