Can Srinivasan rebut conflict of interest charges in SC today?

December 09, 2014 09:16

The Supreme Court will resume the hearing on Indian Premier League spot-fixing and betting case today.

In its last proceeding on Monday, the Apex court had come down heavily on Board of Control for Cricket in India's step-aside president-in-exile N Srinivasan.

During the December 8 hearing, the bench headed by Justice S Thakur and F M Kalifullah had grilled Srinivasan on conflict of interest and said it was difficult for it to accept that the involvement of his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan -- a team official of Chennai Super Kings -- in betting during the IPL 2013 did not result in conflict of interest.

"Srinivasan is the vice chairman and managing director of India Cement Limited, an owner of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, your son-in-law is a team official and he is involved in betting. It is very difficult to accept the proposition that there is no conflict of interest," said the

Making distinction between commercial interest and what a professional gets paid for rendering professional services, the court had said: "Those who invest money to earn money and those who give professional advice and get money (for it) are two different things."

In the previous hearings, the court had questioned the BCCI as to why IPL franchise CSK shouldn't be disqualified from the IPL and asked them to act immediately on the Justice (Retd) Mukul Mudgal report.

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