New Delhi: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has named former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) TS Krishnamurthy as the consensus candidate for the post of observer to the polls for the cricket's governing body.
This submission was made before a bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justice BP Singh and Justice SB Sinha during the hearing of the petitions challenging the Calcutta High Court order.
The parties are also in favour of giving wide powers to the observer and wish to withdraw all litigations from courts.
Further hearing on the dispute and other issues would be settled before the court on Thursday.
The Bench asked them to approach Krishnamurthy and inform it whether he was willing to take the job.
Cricker associations of Rajasthan and Bihar and Netaji Cricket Club of Chennai had challenged the Calcutta High Court judgment removing two former Chief Justices of India as observer to the BCCI elections.
The Division Bench of the High Court had removed Justice KN Singh and Justice MM Punchi, both former CJIs, as observers who were appointed by the Single Bench.
It had only retained Justice Suhas C Sen, former judge of the Supreme Court, as an observer.
During the brief hearing on Wednesday, Sorabjee objected to the reported language used by officials of some state cricket associations against Justice Sen and sought the court's intervention to ensure that it was not repeated.
On October 3 the apex court, favoured the appointment of an eminent person other than a judge as observer for BCCI elections in a bid to avoid the unseemly spectacle of judges getting caught in the crossfire of the politics of the Cricket Board.
Earlier on September 27, a Bench headed by Chief Justice RC Lahoti had declined to grant early hearing on the matter saying that there was only a fight of ego in the election.
"It is only a fight of ego," the Bench had observed.
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