Under the scanner after the Delhi high court appointed arbitrator dismissed his findings on match-fixing vis-a-vis Ajay Jadeja as 'perverse', the Board of Control for Cricket in India investigator K Madhavan has shot back, challenging the award in the Chennai high court.
Madhavan, who was appointed by the BCCI to probe the match-fixing scandal and on whose report Jadeja was banned, challenged the arbitrator J K Mehra's ruling on April 25, the same day when the board moved the Delhi high court against the award.
"I had moved the high court on April 25," Madhavan confirmed to PTI in New Delhi on Saturday, but declined to elaborate saying the matter was sub-judice.
"It is a legal issue and I do not want to make any comments at this stage," he said.
Madhavan, however, said a date for hearing was yet to be fixed. Justice Mehra quashed the five-year ban imposed on all-rounder Ajay Jadeja, saying the findings of former CBI director Madhavan, were "perverse, contrary to law, illegal and against the principles of natural justice".
The Cricket Board had challenged the arbitrator's award on April 25, two days before it was to become binding, and last week during a hearing, came out strongly against the ruling saying the award was biased and it should be reversed.
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