India's Supreme Court has cleared the decks for N Srinivasan to take over as BCCI president on September 19. It has, however, said its decision is subject to the outcome of a separate petition challenging his election. The Court refused to restrain BCCI secretary N Srinivasan from taking over as president of the Board.

Justices Aftab Alam and RM Lodha ruled that if Srinivasan was stopped from becoming president now, it would amount to deciding the outcome of the petition, which is being looked at by a larger bench of the Supreme Court.

Srinivasan had been charged with holding positions which are in conflict as he is also the owner of the Chennai Super Kings.

Earlier an application, in April, by former BCCI chief AC Muthiah alleged that Srinivasan should be disqualified from holding any post in the cricket board because of a conflict of interest, as he was also the owner of the Chennai Super Kings IPL franchise. He also stated that an amendment to the BCCI constitution was brought about specifically to benefit Srinivasan to hold the two posts, since it was illegal under BCCI rules for its officials to have commercial stakes in its own tournaments.