The High Court on Monday opted not to intervene in the ongoing dispute over the leadership of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). A bench refused to issue any order regarding a writ petition that challenged the National Sports Council's (NSC) decisions to remove Faruque Ahmed from the BCB presidency and appoint Aminul Islam Bulbul as his successor.
The court also removed the petition from its list of cases after hearing arguments from all sides. A legal representative for the BCB indicated that the bench wasn't swayed by the petition's arguments, and since the NSC's decisions were already in effect, the court saw no reason to step in. This means the NSC's rulings will stand.
Lawyers for the NSC, the BCB's new president Bulbul, and former president Faruque Ahmed were all present to make their cases.
Faruque Ahmed had filed the writ petition just yesterday, questioning the legality of the NSC's actions to remove him and install former national captain Bulbul. He had also sought a temporary halt to the changes.
Bulbul officially took over as BCB president on Friday. This came a day after the NSC revoked Faruque's directorship, a decision that followed a vote of no confidence by a majority of the board's directors and a review of a report from the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) fact-finding committee.
With his appointment, Bulbul becomes the 17th president of the BCB, and notably, only the second former cricketer—following Faruque himself—to hold the top position in Bangladeshi cricket.
