N Srinivasan returns as India cricket chief
N.Srinivasan was re-elected chief of India's cricket board last month
India's Supreme Court has reinstated N Srinivasan as chief of the
country's cricket board.
He was forced to "step aside" in June after charges that his
son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings team official Gurunath Meiyappan was
involved in illegal betting in the IPL tournament.
Mr Srinivasan, 68, was re-elected as board chief last month, but the
court did not clear him to take up the post.
Mr Srinivasan is widely regarded as the most powerful man in world
cricket.
On Tuesday, the court also appointed a three-member panel, headed by a
former judge, to investigate allegations of spot-fixing and betting during the
Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 tournament.
"Srinivasan can take over as BCCI [Board of Control for Cricket in
India] president, but we have also formed a new probe panel to investigate the
case," Justice AK Patnaik, one of the two judges who heard the case, said
on Tuesday.
Mr Srinivasan himself was not accused of any wrongdoing but he
"stepped aside" temporarily as BCCI chief after his son-in-law was
arrested.
Mr Meiyappan, who was later released on bail, was the team principal of
the Chennai Super Kings, the IPL franchise owned by Mr Srinivasan's India
Cements company.
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