Supreme Court rejects Modi's plea against disciplinary panel

MUMBAI: The Supreme Court today dismissed former IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi?s plea seeking reconstitution of the BCCI?s three member disciplinary panel that is conducting a hearing into financial irregularities done during his tenure.

Modi had moved the Supreme Court after the Bombay High Court had dismissed a similar plea back last year. The SC noted that there should be a "real danger of bias" and "not just an apprehension of bias".

A bench comprising Justices JM Panchal and H.L. Gokhale said that the three-member committee was validly constituted by the BCCI.

"Mere apprehension of biasness cannot be a ground to reconstitute the committee," the Bench said.