BCCI CoA gets six weeks to decide TCA membership
In its petition, the TCA has prayed that the court should direct the BCCI to induct TCA as an associate member .
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Friday directed BCCI’s committee of administrators (CoA) to hear and decide a plea by the Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) for grant of associate membership of BCCI within six weeks.
On Thursday, a bench headed by Justice Shantanu Kemkar and Justice Makrand Karnik directed the CoA to hear and decide the application filed by the TCA for grant of associate membership of BCCI within a fixed time frame. However, since no time frame was fixed, TCA counsel Karan Bhosale mentioned the matter before the bench on Friday and sought a deadline considering that the cricket season was to begin soon.
After hearing advocate Bhosale and BCCI counsel Adarsh Saxena, the high court directed the BCCI to hear and decide the application within a period of six weeks from May 3. It said that it hoped that a well-reasoned order would be passed by the authority.
The decision comes against the backdrop of the Supreme Court directing the CoA to hear and decide a similar matter for the state of Puducherry for associate membership, which was subsequently granted with Puducherry now recognised as an associate member.
In its petition, the TCA has prayed that the court should direct the BCCI to induct TCA as an “associate member”.
The petition also prays that as an alternative the court should direct BCCI to consider the four applications filed by TCA which have been pending before BCCI for many months now. TCA filed the first application to become an associate member in 2016.