DNA
New Delhi, Aug 21: Even as the BCCI meets on Tuesday to change its memorandum, rules and regulations, the very ground on which it has been ruling Indian cricket has come under legal scanner.
A PIL pending in the Madras High Court alleges that the BCCI has tried to overcome procedural lapses in registration of amendments made to its bylaws by going to the extent of reregistering a 56-year-old body all over again.
The BCCI was registered in Madras on November 28, 1940 under the Central Legislation of the Societies Registration Act, 1860. The body and its Memorandum, Rules and Regulations stood deemed registered when The Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975, came into force.
A fresh registration was given by the Registrar of Societies, Chennai Central, on September 25, 2006 to a body called The Board of Control for Cricket India all over again.