N Srinivasan gives undertaking in the Supreme Court to keep out of IPL matters if elected as BCCI president till he gets a clean chit from the high power panel.

Yesterday, the SC questioned the 'rationale' behind Srinivasan stepping aside as BCCI president but attending its meetings as Tamil Nadu Cricket Association president.

The court sought a dispassionate investigation into the prima facie findings of the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee into the Indian Premier League scam because otherwise, "an entire nation would feel cheated."

Kapil Sibal, counsel for Srinivasan, who stepped down as BCCI president after the scam, responded that the Bench may appoint anyone it had confidence in to take the panel's findings forward. "Justice must be seen to be done," he said.