IPL spot-fixing: SC to hear plea seeking players' names

August 07, 2015 08:33

The Supreme Court will today hear a plea in the IPL spot-fixing case seeking handing over of Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee's report, which contains names of some players allegedly involved in the scandal, to the Justice R M Lodha panel considering administrative reforms in BCCI.

The application filed by Cricket Association of Bihar was mentioned before a three-judge bench headed by Justice T S Thakur which ordered its listing for urgent hearing today at 2 pm.

The plea claimed that if the entire contents of the third report are not given to the Justice Lodha Committee, the time and effort spent by Justice Mudgal Committee and the probe team would be wasted.

It said even the heavy expenditure incurred by the respective governments will go "totally waste".

The plea sought a direction to the Supreme Court Registry to hand over to Justice Lodha Committee, the first report and full text of Justice Mudgal Committee's third report which was submitted in the apex court on November 1 last year.

"This is necessary since Justice Lodha Committee has to have the benefit of the full text of the Justice Mudgal Committee report to appreciate the extent of the malaise which has set in the game of cricket so that while suggesting the administrative reforms for BCCI it can suggest measures to ensure that in future the reputation of the game of cricket

will not be sullied by any scam."

"If the full text of the third report is not given to the Justice Lodha Committee, the time and effort spent by Justice Mudgal Committee and the investigating team and the heavy expenditure incurred by the respective governments will go totally waste," the plea filed by Aditya Verma, secretary of the association, said.

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