Board of Control for Cricket in India vs Cricket Association of Bihar

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2022 Supreme(SC) 931

D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, HIMA KOHLI
Board of Control for Cricket in India – Appellant
Versus
Cricket Association of Bihar – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv. (A.C.) Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, ASG Mr. Gaurav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Chadha, Adv. Mr. Tejveer Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Dhawal Mohan, Adv. Mr. Prateek Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Manmeet Kaur Sareen, Adv. Ms. Mitushi Goyal, Adv. Mr. Prabhas Bajaj, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Ms. Bina Madhavan, Adv. Mr. S. Uday Kumar Sagar, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Akanksha Mehra, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. M/S. Lawyer S Knit & Co, AOR Mr. Senthil Jagadeesan, AOR Mr. Abhishek Singh, AOR Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR
For IA 133364-65/22 :Mr. Jayant K. Mehta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anupam Lal Das, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sukant Vikram, AOR Mr. Rajesh Kumar,Adv. Mr. Ritu Raj, Adv. Dr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Ms. Manju Sharma, AOR Mr. Anish R. Shah, AOR Mr. P. Narasimhan, AOR Mr. V. K. Biju, AOR Ms. Celeste Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Akansha Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Mohan Babu Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Rameshwar Pd. Goyal, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mrs. Bina Gupta, AOR Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Nishant Rao, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. R. Chandrachud, AOR Mr. Sarvesh Singh, AOR Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR Mr. Azim H. Laskar, Adv. Mr. Bikas Kar Gupta, Adv. Mr. S.K. Biswal, Adv. Mr. Adtiya Kumar Archiya, Adv. Mr. Chandra Bhushan Prasad, AOR Respondent-in-person Mr. Amol Chitale, Adv. Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Amol Chitale, Adv. Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR Mr. Ritesh Kumar Chowdhary, AOR Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR Mr. Santosh Kumar - I, AOR Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr. Raghavendra S. Srivatsa, AOR Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Ms. Rashmi Singh, AOR Mr. Venkita Subramoniam T.r, AOR Mr. Gagan Gupta, AOR Mr. A.R. Nadkarni, Sr. Adv. Mr. Santosh Mishra, AOR Mr. K. K. Mohan, AOR Mr. Aditya Soni, Adv. Ms. Mamta Singh, Adv. Mr. Amit Singh, Adv. Ms. Parichita Ray, Adv. Mr. Shree Pal Singh, AOR Mr. Sanveer Mehlwal, Adv. Ms. Geetanjali Mehlwal, Adv. Mr. Mohit Yadav, Adv. Ms. Kamakshi S. Mehlwal, AOR Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Ms. Sonia Mathur, AOR Mr. Snehasish Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Rajat Mittal, AOR Mr. Pai Amit, AOR Ms. Pankhuri Bhardwaj, Adv Mr. Abhiyudaya Vats, Adv Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. S.Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Mr. Nar Hari Singh, AOR Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, AOR Mr. Neeraj Kumar Sharma, AOR Ms. Charu Ambwani, AOR Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR Ms. Purnima Krishna, AOR Mr. Aditya Ranjan, AOR Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR Mr. Kaushik Poddar, AOR Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Mr. Mirza Kayesh Begg, Adv. Mr. Shaddab Anwar, Adv. Mr. Prakhar Srivastav, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Mittal, Adv. Mr. Vipul Abhishek, Adv. Mr. Shekhar G. Devasa, Adv. Mr. Manish Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Thashmitha Muthanna, Adv. Mr. Prashanth Dixit, Adv. M/S. Devasa & Co., AOR Mr. K. Krishna Kumar, AOR Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Mr. Gaichangpou Gangmei, AOR Mr. Sridhar Potaraju, AOR Mr. Sandeep Devashish Das, AOR Mr. Deeptakirti Verma, AOR Ms. Anushree Prashit Kapadia, AOR Mr. Divyank Dutt Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Ravi Singh Chhikara, Adv. Mr. Kaustubh Shukla, AOR Mr. Tarun Gupta, AOR Mr. Arjun Singh Bhati, AOR Mr. Kabir Hathi, Adv. Ms. Jesal Wahi, AOR Mr. Ankolekar Gurudatta, AOR Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Mr. Abhishek Pandey, Adv. Mr. Abhivyakti Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Ashok, AOR Mr. Ashok Panigrahi, AOR Mr. Saurabh Trivedi AOR Ms. Rachna Gandhi Adv. Mr. Shashank Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Ronak Baid, Adv. Mr. Khushant Wadhwa, Adv. Mr. Maneesh Pathak, Adv. Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Mr. Akhilesh Kumar Pandey, AOR Ms. Shalini Chandra, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. Gaurav Sharma, AOR Mr. Rauf Rahim, AOR Mr. Aditya Verma, AOR Mr. M. P. Devanath, AOR Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR

JUDGMENT :

Dr Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, J.

1. By the judgment of this Court in Board of Control for Cricket in India v Cricket Association of Bihar, (2018) 9 SCC 624, the draft Constitution of the Board of Control for Cricket in India²[“BCCI”] was approved. The Court stipulated that any amendment to the Constitution shall not be given effect to without the leave of the Court. Clause 45 of the Constitution, as approved, contains the following provision:

“These Rules and Regulations of the BCCI shall not be repealed, added to, amended or altered except when passed and adopted by a 3/4th majority of the members present and entitled to vote at a Special General Meeting of the General Body convened for the purpose or at the Annual General Meeting. Any such amendment will not be given effect to without the leave of the Hon’ble Supreme Court.”

2. On 1 December 2019, certain amendments were approved unanimously at the Annual General Meeting³[“AGM”].

3. An interim application has been filed for seeking the leave of the Court to give effect to the amendments. A reference to the relevant clau

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2022 Supreme(SC) 931

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D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, HIMA KOHLI
Board of Control for Cricket in India – Appellant
Versus
Cricket Association of Bihar – Respondent