India's highest court called on the country's cricket board chief N. Srinivasan to step down to ensure a probe into illegal betting during last year's Indian Premier League, in which his son-in-law has been indicted, is fair.
The involvement of Gurunath Meiyappan in the illegal betting case was proved by a court-appointed committee last month.
A two-member bench of India's Supreme Court has decided that Srinivasan, regarded as the world's most influential cricket administrator, should step down to ensure the probe is not hampered.
The scandal surfaced when former test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two other local cricketers were arrested on suspicion of taking money to concede a fixed number of runs.
