A bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur said, "Anurag Thakur, president of, shall file a personal affidavit whether he had asked the CEO of the ICC to state that the appointment of Justice Lodha committee was tantamount to government interference in the working of the BCCI. If CAG nominee is government interference in board affairs, how can the BCCI argue for inclusion of ministers and bureaucrats in its managing committee?" "Manohar said the ICC should not write such a letter unless the BCCI first writes to the ICC, requesting the ICC to intervene, or that the ICC receives a letter from another of its member requesting it to do so; and no such letter has been received. I understand Manohar is reluctant to interfere in domestic affairs of a member country. "He had further said, "He will not do so without being formally requested to do so by that member concerned, nor is he prepared to put the ICC in a position where the ICC can be perceived as challenging the authority of the Supreme Court of India, without being formally requested to intervene and especially without the full consensus of the ICC board."

Source: Times of India October 08, 2016 02:48 UTC