The Supreme Court hearing into the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing controversy and the Mudgal Committee's report continued on Monday. The apex court is reported to have pulled up IPL Chief Operating Officer, Sundar Raman for not taking any action even though he was aware that officials were involved in betting. The court came down hard on Sundar Raman saying that he was party to everything by doing nothing and watching the fun from the sidelines. The SC also queried if Sundar Raman was worried that his job was at stake.
Sundar Raman replied saying that the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Anti Corruption and Security Unit's (ACSU) YP Singh had informed him about rumors that certain franchisee owners were involved in betting. However, he had found no evidence against them to take any action. To this the Supreme Court replied harshly saying that Sundar Raman should have risen above his own interest of protecting others and being a silent spectator taking care of celebrities.
The hearing will continue on Tuesday and the Supreme Court will look into the issue of conflict of interest of N Srinivasan and more crucially the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) clause 6.2.4 which allowed Srinivasan, a BCCI official, to own an IPL team. There was an amendment to the clause after the first season of the IPL that cleared the way for BCCI officials to own IPL teams without actually flouting BCCI rules.
BCCI clause 6.2.4 before amendment: No administrator shall have, directly or indirectly, any commercial interest in the matches and events conducted by the board.
The clause after amendment: No administrator shall have directly or indirectly any commercial interest in any of the events of BCCI, excluding IPL, Champions League and Twenty20.
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