Former BCCI president Anurag Thakur on Monday offered an unconditional apology to the Supreme Court in connection with a contempt case. The matter will be next heard on April 17, reported PTI. Thakur has also been exempted from appearing personally in court.
The Supreme Court had pulled up Thakur for allegedly lying under oath and trying to obstruct its verdict on implementation of the Justice RM Lodha panel recommendations. The SC bench, headed by former Chief Justice of India TS Thakur, had said that the Bharatiya Janata Party MP could face time in jail if found guilty of perjury charges, adding that only an apology could help him escape.
Thakur had also been asked to file a personal affidavit about whether he had asked for a letter of intervention from the International Cricket Council’s chairman, Shashank Manohar, stating that the appointment of an official from the Comptroller and Auditor General’s office on the apex council would amount to governmental interference. The court took exception to the move as it could have scuttled one of the key recommendations approved by the court.
The SC had then appointed the four-member Committee of Administrators to run the affairs of the BCCI and implement the Lodha recommendations.