Bangalore: The fate of former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi will be decided today when the results of the Rajasthan Cricket Association elections will be announced.
On December 19, the high-voltage polls, which had become a thorn in the flesh of BCCI because of Modi who had contested for the post of RCA president, were held under the supreme court appointed Principal Observer Justice N M Kasliwal, who as per the directives of Supreme Court, sealed the ballot boxes and send it to the apex court with his full report.
The Modi group is, however, confident of a comfortable win.
However, days before the announcement of the result of RCA elections, the BCCI had moved the Supreme Court challenging participation of Lalit Modi in the poll, a move aimed at restraining him from holding the President's post if he wins.
The BCCI challenged the Rajasthan Sports Act 2005 allowing the former IPL Commissioner to contest the RCA presidential elections despite being banned for life by the Board. The apex court had on November 20 made its retired judge Justice N M Kasliwal as a principal observer to oversee the elections.
It had said that "individual members shall not cast their votes and the result of the election shall be subject to the final outcome of the appeal which is pending before this court".
The court had passed the order on a petition filed by former BCCI treasurer and ex-Rajasthan Cricket Association secretary Kishore Rungta seeking the court's direction for appointment of a retired judge to conduct RCA elections. The Board had on December 28 decided to approach the Supreme Court case challenging the RCA polls.
The decision to intervene was taken at an emergent working committee meeting of the Board to discuss the possible implications of Modi's re-entry into the RCA.
