Cricket Board President A C Muthiah and its anti-corruption commissioner K Madhavan filed a petition in the lower court here seeking striking down of certain averments in the main petition filed by former skipper Mohammed Azharuddin, challenging life ban imposed on him by BCCI in the wake of his alleged involvement in the match-fixing scandal. The second additional chief judge of city civil court J Shyam Sunder Rao while posting the hearing on the main petition of Azhar for September 24 asked his counsel T Jagdish to file counter to the petition filed by Muthaiah and Madhavan, both respondents in the case filed by Azhar. Today's hearing in the lower court follows the disposal of the civil revision petition by the High Court on September 12 filed by BCCI questioning the orders passed by the lower court directing them to file written statements in the case filed by Azhar.
Justice J Chelameshwar, judge of the High Court had directed the lower court to dispose of immediately the application filed by BCCI requesting the court to delete some portions of the pleadings of Azharuddin which according to them were vexatious and objectionable.
The judge had directed BCCI to file the written statements within two weeks of the disposal of the above application.
Bureau Report