Mohammad Azharuddin reinstated as Hyderabad Cricket Association President by Ombudsman

Mohammad Azharuddin was on Sunday re-instated as President of the Hyderabad Cricket Association by Ombudsman Justice (retd) Deepak Verma, who additionally “temporarily disqualified” 5 members of the Apex Council, which had suspended the previous India captain.

In an interim order, the HCA Ombudsman briefly disqualified 5 members of the HCA Apex Council –Okay John Manoj, Vice President, R Vijayanand, Naresh Sharma, Surender Agarwal, Anuradha.The Apex Council had “suspended” Azharuddin for alleged violation of its structure. Allegations of Conflict of Interest have been levelled towards Azharuddin.Justice (retd) Verma in his order identified that the criticism towards Azharuddin was not forwarded to Ombudsman and in impact has no authorized validity.”Apex Council on its own accord cannot take such a decision. Therefore, I deem it appropriate to set aside the resolution (if any) passed by these five members in suspending the duly elected President, issuing a show cause notice and direct them to refrain from any subsequent actions against the President of HCA, Mohammed Azharuddin,” Justice (retd) Verma, mentioned.”Therefore, I direct that Mohammed Azharuddin shall continue as President and all complaints against office bearers shall only be decided by the Ombudsman.”From the aforesaid details and options, it’s clearly mirrored that as an alternative of encouraging the sport of Cricket, each is enjoying their very own politics for the explanations greatest identified to them. Thus, it defeats the very function for which HCA has been fashioned”, Justice (retd) Verma noted.Apex Council Members suspendedRegarding the five Apex Council members, Justice Verma in the order said, “I wish to make it clear that, simply because these 5 members consider on their very own accord that I’m not ombudsman doesn’t take away my powers which are actually been confirmed by the High Court judgment and the minutes of the eighty fifth AGM as effectively”.”These members can not evade the due strategy of regulation simply by stating that they do not conform to my appointment. It is evident from the above, that these members have malafide intentions and don’t need clean functioning of HCA.”It is for this reason and reasons mentioned above, I hereby direct that these members are temporarily disqualified from performing their duties as office bearers of the Apex Council till the time these Complaints attain finality,” the Ombudsman mentioned.