Former IPl chairman lalit Modi on Friday demanded that CSK's contract should be "cancelled" immediately and fresh auctions should be held in the wake of franchise owner Gurunath Meiyappan's name cropping up in the spot-fixing scandal.
"If a owner of an IPl team is engaged in betting, the contract clearly states that there is a suo moto right to cancel the agreement of the team and that should be done right away," he said on Times Now. "They (CSK) should not exist, contract should be cancelled and new auctions should be held for the franchise."
Modi questioned BCCI president N Srinivasan's conflict of interest in the game and said that Meiyappan is very much an owner of the team unlike what Indian Cements, owner of CSK, claim. "When I was IPl chairman passes were issued only after team owners gave us the names and after all documentation," he said.
"I have been repeatedly saying this but nobody took a stand. There is a clear conflict of interest and that's why Srinivasan is not being able to take a strong action," former BCCI president A C Muttiah said.