BCCI officials need to be tied and lashed, tweets Justice Markandey Katju

The Lodha-BCCI spat seems to turn a new corner everyday. Earlier today, the BCCI released a statement implying that New Zealand’s tour of India might be cut short due to certain restrictions that the Lodha committee has forced onto the board.

In a matter of a few hours, the Lodha committee came back firing – they outright dismissing any interference in the day-to-day running of the cash-rich board and said that the series should go on.

However, in an unexpected instance, the BCCI's advisor in the Lodha implementation, Justice Markandey Katju today came out with a tweet against his current employers. The retired Supreme Court Justice tweeted, “This treatment isn't enough. Aisannamanahin. Lodha shud get BCCI officials tied naked to a pole & given 100 lashes each on their behinds”.

The 70-year-old had previously called the Supreme Court’s judgement on the BCCI reforms as “unconstitutional and illegal” in August, but suddenly appears to have gone rouge on his employers - the richest Cricket board in the world.

On August 7th, while speaking to a press conference he had said, “What the Supreme Court has done is unconstitutional and illegal. There has been violation of principles of the Constitution. Under our Constitution, we have legislature, executive and judiciary.”

“There is a broad separation of functions. It's the legislature's prerogative to make laws. If judiciary starts making laws, one is setting a dangerous precedent.”

"I have advised them [the BCCI] to file a review petition before a larger bench. In this case, the Supreme Court outsourced a committee to decide on BCCI's punishment," Justice Katju had said.

However, everything does not appear to have gone well between the two. In September, BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke had reportedly rejected a report that the former Supreme Court justice had prepared for the BCCI to be forwarded to the committee, reported ToI last month.