"How can a person disqualified by virtue of apex court order be nominated as nominee of state cricket associations and attend the meeting of BCCI," a bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said. The apex court accepted the resignation and relieved Guha who has resigned due to personal reasons. He said these disqualified members cannot attend the meeting by becoming nominees of state cricket associations. Sibal said the arguments were going far beyond the judgements and efforts were being made to target the former cricket administrators. The bench said "if we look look into the history, we cannot deny the contribution made by railways to cricket.

Source: India Today July 14, 2017 13:35 UTC