TCA questions HCA over alleged constitutional violations

The Telangana Cricket Association has questioned the Hyderabad Cricket Association over alleged statutory and constitutional violations, including unauthorised trials and district committees. TCA general secretary D. Guruva Reddy said HCA’s jurisdiction was limited to Hyderabad under existing judicial directives

Hyderabad: The Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) questioned the ongoing illegal, corrupt, and unconstitutional acts executed by the Apex Council management and Single Member Committee (SMC) of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA).

In a desperate rush to establish a fait accompli before the upcoming critical hearing before the BCCI Ethics Officer and Ombudsman on August 17 (this month), on the complaint filed by Cricketers Gourav Sharma of Nizamabad District and Marignari Navarasan of the Warangal District, the HCA has committed a series of flagrant statutory breaches and conflict-of-interest violations to mislead judicial and administrative authorities.

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“The tendentious attempts at defrauding and mocking the judiciary, the side effects of mocked judicial oversight, and the overall impersonation of unauthorized authority will all culminate in an inevitable doomsday for HCA the upcoming next week, TCA general secretary D. Guruva Reddy said in a statement on Wednesday.

“The HCA is in a hurry to try and show some fake compliance before this hearing on August 17,” he said.

“The HCA’s unilateral trials and district maneuvers are a direct assault on the authority of the BCCI and the Supreme Court-mandated Constitution,” he said.

“The HCA is bypassing the parent body, the BCCI, its framework and judicial directives (including the landmark July 11, 2021 framework) which explicitly demarcate boundaries which restrict HCA strictly to the Hyderabad city limits,” the TCA official said.

“By running unauthorized trials and setting up parallel district committees without consensus, the HCA is staging an open rebellion against its own parent body, behaving as though the writ of Indian cricket governance stops at its office gates,” he said.

“True democratic governance requires mandate and consensus from the elected General Body and stakeholders. Instead, the current management operates like an isolated autocracy, bypassing its own institutional roots to push arbitrary, backdoor selections and land-grabs,” he said.

“The HCA is attempting to bypass an active, sub-judicial process. As per the Bombay High Court directives following the BCCI mandate of July 11, 2021 (Writ Petition No. 3678 of 2023), the HCA’s jurisdiction is strictly limited to the Hyderabad city limits. Cricket development across the remaining districts of Telangana falls outside HCA’s unilateral mandate and requires a collaborative conciliation framework with the TCA,” Mr. Guruva Reddy said.