Centre to examine whether to legalise betting in cricket: Supreme Court

New Delhi, Jul 18: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and the Law Commission to examine the Justice R M Lodha committee’s recommendation to legalise betting in cricket. A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice F M I Kalifulla, which accepted majority of the recommendations of Justice R M Lodha panel on reforms in BCCI, said that since this issue involves enactment of a law, it should be examined by the government. “So also the recommendation made by the Committee that betting should be legalised by law, involves the enactment of a law which is a matter that may be examined by Law Commission and Government for such action as it may consider necessary in the facts and circumstances of the case,” it said. While reading out the operative portion of the verdict, the CJI said that the bench was leaving it to Parliament to decide whether to legalise betting in cricket or not.