A writ petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the State Ministry of Sports Development and Youth Welfare to take over the entire administration of the TN Cricket Association (TNCA), of which controversial N Srinivasan of India Cements, is the president.
The first bench of Acting Chief Justice R K Agrawal and Justice M Sathiyanarayanan, before which the public interest writ petition from Singaravelar Memorial Cricket Club, Mylapore, one of the constituent clubs of the TNCA, came up on Tuesday, adjourned the matter by a day.
The interim prayer of the petitioner club was to appoint an advocate-commissioner to inspect the relevant records of the TNCA to ascertain whether its office-bearers were democratically elected or elected improperly or by fabricating the records.
In his petition, Kathiravan, president of the petitioner club, alleged that the election of office-bearers of the TNCA were not conducted properly. Srinivasan was functioning in a summary and arbitrary manner for monetary gain. The manner in which the election had been conducted was shrouded in mystery, as a result of which unqualified rich and mighty industrialists have been elected.
The membership of the TNCA was also dubious. It was the duty of the Sports Development Department to ensure that sporting activity flourished in the State free from nepotism and corruption and that competent persons were selected. The petitioner claimed that department had not evinced interest in monitoring illegal activities of office-bearers of the TNCA.