IPL: Supreme Court retains directive on Swamy’s appeal to lifting of ban on CSK

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today retained its order on a plea filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy challenging the two-year ban imposed on IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings.

A bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur said that it will pronounce an order in the matter.

Swamy, in his plea, has alleged that there were no allegations against either N Srinivasan or against any members of the CSK and hence the ban imposed by the Justice R M Lodha panel was “illegal, arbitrary and unreasonable”.

The Lodha panel had banned CSK and Rajasthan Royals after holding that its top officials like Raj Kundra and Gurunath Meiyappan were found involved in betting.