The Lodha Committee was appointed by the Supreme Court of India on 23 January 2015 to analyse and recommend implementable actions for improving the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), assess the quantum of punishment for Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra in the Indian Premier League (IPL) betting scandal, and analyse the role of Sundar Raman . The Lodha Committee report was submitted on 14 July 2015.
6-713: The establishment of the Lodha Committee was the result of the report submitted by the Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee after an investigation into the 2013 IPL betting scandal . The committee was chaired by Justice R. M. Lodha . The purpose of the Lodha Committee was to analyse and recommend implementable actions for improving the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), assess the quantum of punishment for Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra in
12-683: The Indian Premier League (IPL) betting scandal, and analyse the role of Sundar Raman . The report suggested various changes within the BCCI such as the appointment conditions of the CFO and CEO, age of office bearers, advertisements during the IPL matches, and appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) official. The Lodha Committee report was submitted on 14 July 2015. In brief,
18-504: The Lodha Committee offered the following recommendations The recommendations of the Lodha Committee shook the BCCI hierarchy and its related associations. The BCCI raised objections to the recommendations and approached the Supreme Court. The final judgment by the Supreme Court was delivered on 18 July 2016, by a two-judge bench consisting of Justice F. M. Ibrahim Kalifulla and Chief Justice T. S. Thakur . The final judgment upheld
24-404: The Lodha Committee recommendations, paving the way for a major change within the BCCI. Mudgal Committee Mudgal Committee is a four-member committee, headed by former High Court judge Mukul Mudgal and comprising the then Additional Solicitor General of India L. Nageswara Rao and senior advocate and former cricket umpire Nilay Dutta to conduct an independent inquiry into
30-476: The allegations of corruption against BCCI chief N. Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan , India Cements , and Rajasthan Royals team owner Jaipur IPS Cricket Private Ltd, as well as with the larger mandate of investigating allegations having to do with betting and spot-fixing in 2013 Indian Premier League matches and the involvement of players. Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly
36-430: Was reported to have joined the committee along with retired IPS officer B B Mishra . In a report submitted to the Supreme Court on 9 February, 2014, the committee presented the following conclusions. The committee noted that the allegations of spot fixing and matching fixing by S. Sreesanth , Ankeet Chavan , Ajit Chandila , Amit Singh and Siddharth Trivedi (Rajasthan Royals) on the basis of evidence provided by
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