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BFI elections are set to be held on August 21. (HT) <\/p>\nNew Delhi: The Delhi high court on Monday allowed the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) to proceed with its elections scheduled for August 21.<\/p>\n
BFI elections are set to be held on August 21. (HT) <\/p>\n
However, a bench of Justice Mini Pushkarna clarified that the elections held would be subject to the outcome of petitions filed by four state associations \u2014 Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh \u2014 challenging the BFI interim committee\u2019s decision to hold the polls and the validity of the amended constitution. She added that the election process could be set aside if found to be unlawful.<\/p>\n
The court directive came after the counsel for the Delhi Amateur Boxing Association (DABA) submitted that the electoral process initiated by the interim committee \u2014 comprising members from the previous executive committee \u2014 was illegal as it was based on a newly amended constitution that was unilaterally adopted without following the mandatory ratification procedure.<\/p>\n
He further argued that the amendment \u2014 mandating that contesting candidates be elected members of state units at the time of the election \u2014 effectively undermined a prior court order that had stayed a similar circular. To be sure, the high court had in March stayed BFI\u2019s circular that permitted elected members to contest the polls.<\/p>\n
The three state units represented by advocate Chaitanya Mahajan contended that the formation of the interim committee was flawed as it was in violation of World Boxing\u2019s directive requiring the inclusion of a nominee from the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).<\/p>\n
The IOA\u2019s counsel informed the court that it had provided specific recommendations to ensure free and fair elections. Premtosh Kumar Mishra, representing the Union sports ministry, contended that the amended constitution held no legal validity as it had not been adopted in line with BFI\u2019s by-laws.<\/p>\n
The BFI interim committee\u2019s lawyer said that the new constitution had been approved by World Boxing and accepted by 30 of the 34 state units.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese elections are happening on August 21. You (BFI) go ahead with your elections. I\u2019m not stopping you. I\u2019ve already made it clear that it will be subject to the outcome of the writ petition, and in case you\u2019ve done something which is not as per law, the court will take note of that and then pass orders. Sports is no longer sports, it is politics, actually. The constitution cannot be against the sports code and the rules. I\u2019m not giving any stamp of approval for that (amended statute),\u201d Justice Pushkarna remarked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis court notes the submissions made that the elections that are being held are against the tenor of the national sports code as well as in complete violation of the constitution of the BFI and model election guidelines. If that is the case, this court has already clarified that the elections shall be subject to the outcome of the present writ petitions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn case this court, at the time of final hearing of the matters, comes to the conclusion that there have been violations of the national sports code or BFI\u2019s constitution has been amended in a wrongful manner, appropriate orders shall be passed by this court. It is further clarified that no special equity shall be claimed by the newly elected executive of the BFI,\u201d the court said in its order.<\/p>\n
The BFI elections were initially set for March 28, but were delayed due to litigation that led to WB setting up an interim committee with Ajay Singh, the previous president, as its head. On July 31, Singh issued a notice for convening an annual general meeting (AGM), calling for fresh nominations from the state units based on a new constitution. The amended statute mandates that the contesting candidate must be \u201can elected member of the State\/UT member association during the election AGM duly notified to BFI and in the presence of a BFI observer.\u201d<\/p>\n
A day later, the interim panel appointed Justice (retd) Rajesh Tandon as the Returning Officer. Singh resigned as the interim committee head on August 2 to contest for the president\u2019s post for a third term. This led to WB designating Fairuz Mohamed as the interim panel\u2019s head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Monday allowed the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) to proceed with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[38902,38905,2560,38903,27669,38904,38906,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-75913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bfi","tag-bfi-elections","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-election","tag-boxing-federation-of-india","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-national-sports-code","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}