Suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi’s plea to have the bench of Chirayu Amin and BCCI vice-president Arun Jaitley overturned from the disciplinary committee has been rejected by the High Court. Modi had appealed to the High Court to have them removed from the disciplinary hearing on the grounds of having a bias against him, but the same was rejected. 
BCCI’s CAO, Ratnakar Shetty, said that the High Court order meant that the disciplinary committee will now hold the disciplinary meeting on Wednesday as planned. He said, “There are witnesses on the list prepared by the committee and we will go ahead with that list.”
However, it did not seem like the Modi camp was going to go down without a fight. His lawyer, Mehmood Abdi said they would explore the option of filing a special leave petition against the order.
Abdi also said that it was disappointing that the Board had refused the offer to postpone the hearing to another date.
Abdi slammed the decision of the BCCI to have the entire hearing in three to four hours, where the Modi lawyers will also have the chance of cross-questioning the witnesses.
The disciplinary committee needs to submit the recommendations till October 26 to the BCCI. Modi was suspended from the post of the IPL chairman after the third edition of the IPL after he was found to have been allegedly involved in financial irregularities, and accused of contriving to make a parallel cricket league in UK.