In a setback to former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed his plea seeking reconstitution of the BCCI-appointed disciplinary panel probing allegations of financial irregularities against him. A Bench comprising Justices J M Panchal and H L Gokhale said that the three-member Committee was validly constituted by the BCCI and it cannot be reconstituted merely on the ground of apprehensions of biasness expressed by Modi.

Modi had sought reconstitution of the three-member panel comprising Arun Jaitley, Chirayu Amin and Jyotiraditya Scindia for probing alleged irregularities by him. He had sought removal of Jaitley and Amin from the panel, alleging that they might be biased against him as they were part of the Special General Body meeting of BCCI where decision against Modi was taken. Earlier, Bombay High Court had dismissed his appeal of reconstitution of the Committee.