Vinay Kumar
NEW DELHI: Commenting adversely on the large-scale induction of members into the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) closer to organisational elections scheduled this year, Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the Bombay HC order that had stayed the MCA elections because of grant of hurried and allegedly irregular membership to a large number of persons unrelated to the game.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi said, “In our country, there are hundreds of eminent retired cricketers who have done the country and their states proud with their performances. We would have respected your election-eve membership drive if you had enrolled the ex-cricketers as members.”
The bench brushed aside the argument that the late-stage inductions had been supervised by a retired HC judge .
