The BCCI today informed the Supreme Court that 12 of its member associations have kept the funds received by the cricket body in term deposit and they will not utilise them until further orders of the apex court.
In an affidavit filed before the court, Ratnakar Shetty, BCCI's General Manager (administration and game development) said the board has received letters in this regard from 12 member associations.
"The BCCI has received from 12 member associations letters stating that the funds received by them as due from BCCI between September 26, 2016 and October 1, 2016 have been kept by the respective associations in term deposit and that no part of the said amount will be utilised by them until further orders of the Supreme Court," the board said in its affidavit.
Among the member states which have sent letters to BCCI in this regard include Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Punjab, Saurashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
On October 21, the apex court had choked funds to the state associations till BCCI president Anurag Thakur and the units "undertake to implement" the Justice R M Lodha committee recommendations on reforms.
The apex court, in a slew of directions, had sought appointment of an "independent auditor" to "scrutinise and audit" the income and expenditure of the cash-rich body besides going into high-value contracts awarded to various entities awarded by it.
"BCCI shall forthwith cease and desist from making any disbursement of funds for any purpose whatsoever to any state association until and unless the state association concerned adopts a resolution undertaking to implement recommendations of the Committee as accepted by this Court in its judgement dated 18 July 2016.
"After such a resolution is passed and before any disbursement of funds takes place to the state association concerned, a copy of the resolution shall be filed before the Committee and before this Court, together with an affidavit of the President of the state association undertaking to abide by the reforms contained in the report of the Committee, as modified by this Court," a bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud had said.
The bench had said that any transfer of funds "shall take place to the state associations" only after they accept terms and comply with them.
The bench had directed Thakur and BCCI Secretary Ajay Shirke to file separate "affidavits of compliance" before the court on or before December 3 in terms of the earlier order.
The office bearer should not be "insolvent, or of unsound
mind" or a minister or government servant, the panel has said, adding that criteria also included that such a person should not be holding "any office or post in a sports or athletic association or federation apart from cricket".
The committee, in its report, has also pleaded with the court to issue a direction that now "all administrative and management matters be carried out by the CEO of the BCCI without advertence to the office bearers".
It has also sought the authority for itself "to appoint all necessary secretarial staff, assistance and fix remuneration as may be determined appropriate".
Quoting the July 18 verdict, it said that most of its recommendations were accepted by the court.
On July 18, the apex court had accepted almost all major recommendations of the Lodha committee on reforms in BCCI including a bar on ministers and civil servants and those above 70 from becoming its members, but left it to Parliament to decide whether it should come under RTI and betting on the game should be legalised.
It had also accepted the recommendations of the committee to have a CAG nominee in BCCI and had rejected BCCI's objection to recommendations for one-state-one-vote.
The bench had also accepted the recommendation that one person should hold one post in cricket administration to avoid any conflict of interest and scrapping of all other administrative committees in the BCCI after CAG nominee comes in.
