BCCI, ICC anti-corruption units must do more: Justice Mukul Mudgal

Justice Mukul Mudgal, who probed allegations of betting and match-fixing in the Indian Premier League, has said the anti-corruption units of the ICC and the BCCI need to do more, and do it more proactively. [caption id=“attachment_141505” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Justice Mukul Mudgal. Pic courtesy ibnlive[/caption] Speaking to The Indian Express, Justice Mudgal said the anti-corruption lectures where “some South African with some queer accent comes in and tells maybe a player fom Haryana that you are to do this and this” may not be the most effective method of spreading awareness among players. Asked if it’s at all necessary for anti-corruption unit members to lecture players that it is inappropriate to speak to a bookie, Justice Mudgal said nobody approaches a player with the demand to fix a match. “First, they’ll make friends with them socially, then take them to some parties where there would be attractive companions. These youngsters are then asked what is happening tomorrow, this kind of a thing. A youngster may not even know that by telling him, ‘I am not playing, player x is playing’, he is divulging insider information,” he is quoted as having said. Despite the BCCI paying the ICC anti-corruption unit large sums of money, the unit remains ineffective, he said. The retired judge, who was among those approached by the Aam Aadmi Party for a legal opinion on whether it could table the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Delhi Assembly without first seeking the nod of the Central government, also said that though he believed the rule mandating such prior permission from the Central government was unconstitutional, what was expected of the then government of the Aam Aadmi Party was to challenge an unconstitutional rule. “Nobody can abrogate to himself the right to say it’s unconstitutional and I will not obey it. It should not become like the Dandi March, which was for a far more noble purpose,” Justice Mudgal said.