The BCCI appointed former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju on Tuesday as the head of a four-member legal panel to help the Board understand the implications of the Justice Lodha Committee reforms, which have been made mandatory by the apex court.

Interestingly, Katju had questioned Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Lodha panel to decide punishments for players and cricket bodies involved in the IPL match-fixing controversy last year.



In a meeting of its all-powerful working committee, the BCCI decided to make Katju the single point interface for the Board to interact with the Justice Lodha Committee as well advise and guide the world’s richest cricketing body.



Apart from Katju, another legal luminary in the panel will be Abhinav Mukherjee. Justice Katju has been a judge in the Supreme Court from 2006 to 2011 apart from being the chairman of Press Council of India.

