The Supreme Court docket on Tuesday refused to intrude with the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket order staying the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections. The event got here days after UWW, the world governing physique for wrestling, suspended the WFI for not conducting its elections on time. Because of the worldwide wrestling physique’s determination, the nation’s grapplers won’t be able to compete on the upcoming World Championships below the Indian flag. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal requested the petitioner, Andhra Pradesh Novice Wrestling Affiliation, to strategy the excessive courtroom with its grievances.
“Why ought to we entertain this? You go to the excessive courtroom… As a substitute of making use of for vacating the interim keep, the petitioner has chosen to strategy the Supreme Court docket. We, subsequently, decline to entertain this particular depart petition,” the bench stated and granted the petitioner liberty to hunt impleadment as a celebration within the excessive courtroom.
The apex courtroom additionally requested the excessive courtroom to present obligatory precedence to the case, if the petitioner information a plea for impleadment.
In the course of the listening to, the counsel showing for the petitioner informed the bench that WFI has now been de-recognised by United World Wrestling (UWW), a growth which is a humiliation for the nation.
“The election course of shouldn’t be stopped. We’ve no axe to grind,” the lawyer for the affiliation stated.
Lawyer Basic R Venkataramani, showing for the Centre, contended the petitioner has bypassed the excessive courtroom and jumped on to the highest courtroom.
The highest courtroom was listening to a plea by the Andhra Pradesh Novice Wrestling Affiliation in opposition to the August 11 order of the excessive courtroom staying the election.
The Indian Olympic Affiliation-appointed ad-hoc panel governing the WFI had initially scheduled the elections for July 6 however was pressured to reschedule the polls to July 11 after disaffiliated state our bodies from Maharashtra, Haryana, Telangana, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh approached it for a listening to, claiming their dismissal was not acceptable.
The panel heard the aggrieved representatives of the state our bodies however the polls couldn’t go forward even on July 11, with the Gauhati Excessive Court docket staying the elections after the Assam Wrestling Affiliation (AWA) sought the best to take part within the ballot course of. PTI PKS DV PKS SK SK
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