Indian SC says Srinivasan guilty of conflict of interest

NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday world cricket chief N. Srinivasan to give up his stake in the Indian Premier League if he wanted to be re-elected head of the country’s powerful board.The court found Srinivasan guilty of a conflict of interest for having commercial dealings in the sport while head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) by owning an Indian Premier League franchise.“Srinivasan or any other administrator can’t contest elections (to the BCCI) (while) they have those interests,” the two-judge bench was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.