An ethics officer of the Board for Cricket Control in India, Justice DK Jain has issued a conflict of interest notice to the President of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), Rupa Gurunath for violating the norms set by the BCCI’s constitution. The notice was issued on December 08 and Justice Jain had said in that notice that he was responding to the complaints filed against Ms Gurunath.
"Since a prima facie case is made out in the complaint, Gurunath should file her response by December 24. On your failure to respond to the present notice, the Ethics Officer shall be constrained to proceed in your absence, without giving any further opportunity of filing a response to the Complaint, to you," Justice Jain said in the notice.
The notice was issued to Ms Gurunath, who is a daughter of former BCCI president N Srinivasan, after a complaint filed by a former life member of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association, Sanjeev Gupta, who alleged that she is overseeing two roles simultaneously--one as the president of TNCA while the other being the whole-time director of the India Cements Ltd., the parent company that owns the Chennai Super Kings franchise in the Indian Premier League(IPL). Additionally, Gupta claims that all directors of the CSK franchise are invariably directors of the subsidiaries of India Cements Ltd. and give rise to an inevitable conflict of interest.
The ethics officer Jain has asked Ms Gurunath to submit her response to these claims made by the complainant by December 24, 2020. Notably, the top brass of the board is set to meet for the Annual General Meeting where some of the key discussions on issues such as the addition of two more franchises in the IPL have to take place.
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