Mumbai: A petition was filed in the Bombay high court on Friday seeking dissolution of the managing committee of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) as it was allegedly not following the Justice Lodha Committee’s recommendations on reforms in cricket governance. The court has issued notice to the MCA to file its reply within two weeks.
A division bench of Justice Shantanu Kemkar and Justice Makarand Karnik was hearing a writ petition filed by Nadeem Memon whose club is registered under the MCA.
The petitioner alleged that the MCA was not following the Lodha Committee’s recommendations and hence, the MCA’s managing committee should be dissolved and an administrator appointed by the HC to manage the MCA’s affairs.
The petitioner also said that the administrator should implement the said recommendations. The petition alleged gross mismanagement of funds and operations within the MCA.
With reference to the T20 Mumbai League matches going on in the city, the petitioner’s lawyer Mihir Desai argued, “The managing committee engaged the services of two private companies as special purpose vehicles to conduct the matches.
However, in effect, the managing committee members planted a middleman to enable them siphon off the funds received from the T20 event”.
The petitioner said that the court appoint a committee of administrators headed by a retired judge to take charge of the MCA’s affairs by overruling its managing committee and taking steps to implement the Lodha Committee’s recommendations.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), too, supported the petitioner and told the court that the MCA’s current managing committee be dissolved.
