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All India Football Federation vs Rahul Mehra & Ors.

Court
Supreme Court of India
Date
18 May 2022
Case No.
Special Leave Petition (Civil) Nos. 30748-30749 of 2017
Bench
D.Y. Chandrachud, Surya Kant, Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha
Citation
[2022] 4 S.C.R. 768 : 2022 INSC 1304
Supreme Court Reports [2022] 4 S.C.R. 768 : 2022 INSC 1304
Headnote

All India Football Federation – Committee of Administrators – This Court by an interim order, constituted a Committee of Administrators (CoA) for formulating the Constitution of the federation; ensuring constitution of Executive Committee and for holding elections – CoA placed a draft constitution for inviting any suggestion or objection – All the objections to be placed before the Court – Two member CoA, which was earlier appointed by the Court to prepare constitution and hold elections was reconstituted with three members – Now the CoA to assist the Court and provide its inputs in the course of the proceedings so as to facilitate adoption of the Constitution – The CoA to prepare the electoral roll/college for the purpose of conducting the elections to the Executive Committee in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, as proposed – The CoA to make all appropriate arrangements, for the governance of the Federation, until elections are held – The CoA to assist the Court and carry out the day to day governance of the Federation – The CoA to issue appropriate directions in regard to the operation of accounts, funds and payment of expenses incurred for the functioning of the Federation – Matter listed for hearing of objections.

As published in the Supreme Court Reports, Supreme Court of India. Text from the Indian Supreme Court Judgments open data set (Dattam Labs), CC BY 4.0.

Full Judgment Text

The following Order of the Court was passed: ORDER 1. Application for intervention1 is allowed. 2. By an interim order dated 10 November 2017, a Committee of Administrators2 (also described as Ombudsmen), was constituted for (i) formulating the Constitution of the All India Football Federation3 in consonance with the National Sports Code and the Model Guidelines; (ii) ensuring the constitution of the Executive Committee and for holding elections. 3. The CoA has sought the permission of the Court to submit its report. Mr Samar Bansal, counsel appearing on behalf of CoA submits that before
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