Guwahati, May 11: The Assam Cricket Association's vexed legal tangles are all set to reach the Supreme Court.

Ousted secretary Bikash Baruah today said he would move the apex court, challenging yesterday's Gauhati High Court ruling allowing ACA president Gautam Roy to participate in the June 12 governing body elections but barring him from the same privilege.

A division bench of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Rumi Kumari Phukan yesterday ruled that the ACA could hold its annual general meeting and elect a new governing body under the supervision of retired high court judge Justice C.R. Sarma on the Barsapara Cricket Stadium premises here on June 12. The ruling also allowed Roy to participate in the elections but directed Baruah to stay away .

Roy and Baruah are co-accused, along with treasurer Ghanashyam Baruah, of financial irregularities in former ACA secretary Sahajananda Oja's public interest litigation on the basis of which the court had barred the ACA from holding its AGM.

"My advocates are preparing to appeal before the Supreme Court, challenging the Gauhati High Court ruling. If the president, who is directly accused of financial irregularities in the PIL because he has been solely handling the affairs of the cricket stadium construction since 2009, vide a governing body resolution, is allowed to participate in the elections, why should I be barred?" Baruah asked.

"I am barred from the elections, but I am granted voting rights, which automatically annuls the life ban imposed illegally on me," Baruah told The Telegraph here today. The ACA has imposed a life ban on Baruah, which he has challenged in the lower court and a judgment is expected by June 4.

"I am not going to nominate myself for any post this time because I respect the Lodha Committee recommendations, according to which I cannot contest any post because I have completed nine years in office. But I am going to fight against the discrimination towards me," he said.

The proposed election on June 12 is expected to elect a body for a short period if the Justice R.M. Lodha Committee recommendations are not followed because a final Supreme Court judgment on a petition filed by Maharashtra Cricket Association challenging the practicability of the recommendations is expected on June 29.

According to the Lodha Committee recommendations, only a few members in the ACA's current governing body will be eligible to nominate themselves for vital posts like president, vice-presidents, secretary and joint secretaries.

President Roy, secretary Baruah, vice-presidents Rakibul Hussain and Himanta Biswa Sarma, treasurer Ghanashyam Baruah, joint secretary Sanatan Das, assistant secretaries Sushanta Biswa Sarma and Parimal Sinha will be ineligible to contest .

BCCI top guns like president Shashank Manohar, Brijesh Patel, Kashi Viswanath and a few others have already relinquished their posts in the past few months.

Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur, who is heading the bench hearing the suits against the recommendations, has been categorically maintaining that every recommendation will have to implemented.

"It would be better if we work out a new body in compliance with the Lodha Committee recommendations so we don't have to hold another election soon after ," a governing body member told The Telegraph.