- (1.)Leave granted. These two civil appeals arise out of PIL Petition No. 55 of 2013 filed in the Bombay High Court by the Cricket Association of Bihar. In the PIL before the Bombay High Court, serious allegations of betting and spot fixing in IPL 2013 have been made against Mr. Gurunath Meiyappan as the alleged Team Principal of Chennai Super Kings and also allegations of betting have been made against the Part-Team Owner of IPL Franchisee-Rajasthan Royals.
(2.)The team owner of Chennai Super Kings is India Cements Limited of which Mr. N. Srinivasan, the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India [for short 'the BCCI'], is the Managing Director and Mr. Gurunath Meiyappan is the son-in-law of Mr. N. Srinivasan.
(3.)We have heard these matters in part and posted these matters for further hearing to 16th April, 2014 and it will take some more days after 16th April, 2014 for hearing to be completed and for judgment to be delivered.