adminNEW DELHI. — An Indian court ruled yesterday a probe ordered by the country’s cricket chiefs into a betting scandal was illegal, causing further trouble for cricket head N. Srinivasan, reports said. The Bombay High Court, which retains Mumbai’s former name, ruled a panel set up to probe the betting scandal in the Indian Premier League competition was “illegal” and “unconstitutional”.
The ruling comes just two days after the panel’s report, leaked to the media, found no wrongdoing by senior cricket officials or IPL owners over the scandal.
Yesterday’s court ruling could derail the return of Srinivasan, who stepped aside temporarily as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India on June 2, after his son-in-law was arrested, and later released on bail, over alleged links to illegal bookmakers. — AFP.
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