BCCI Ethics Officer Finds TNCA President Rupa Gurunath Guilty of Conflict of Interest

The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s Ethics Officer Justice DK Jain has discovered Tamil Nadu Cricket Association President Rupa Gurunath responsible of battle of curiosity. Jain upheld a criticism made towards Rupa Gurunath by Sanjeev Gupta, which alleged that she was concurrently holding multiple place opposite to the foundations and rules of BCCI.

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Apart from being the president of TNCA, Rupa Gurunath additionally holds the submit of full-time director in India Cements Ltd (ICL), and the submit of director in seven different corporations which are subsidiary to ICL, in line with the criticism.

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The criticism alleged that Rupa Gurunath has an oblique relationship with administrators of Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited (CSKCL).

After investigating the case, Jain stated in his report, a replica of which is with Cricketnext: “All these facts go on to show that a circuitous web of entities, including CSKCL has been created under the umbrella of ICL. The management and governance of all such entities directly or indirectly lies in the hands of the board of ICL, notwithstanding the defence pleaded that ICL has no stake in CSKCL. In the given factual scenario, it can be safely inferred that the respondent (Rupa Gurunath), in her capacity as the whole time director and promoter of ICL, has close associations with the trustees of IC Shareholders Trust and the Directors of CSKCL, which has a franchise agreement with the BCCI.

This is one of the recognised forms of conflict of interest.”

Rupa Gurunath, daughter of former BCCI chief N Srinivasan, was in 2019 elected unopposed as president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), making her the primary girl to move a state unit of the Indian Board.

Rupa is the spouse of Gurunath Meiyappan, who’s serving a life ban for his involvement within the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal.

Rupa was elected on the TNCA’s 87th Annual General Meeting.

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