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Bombay HC gives HI 6 weeks to sort Maha affiliation issues
A Bombay High Court division bench on Thursday directed HI to consider affiliation applications of all three units in the state -- Mumbai, Vidarbha and Maharashtra -- in six weeks` time before going for the polls.
Mumbai: In yet another setback to the Hockey
India elections, a Bombay High Court division bench on Thursday
directed HI to consider affiliation applications of all three
units in the state -- Mumbai, Vidarbha and Maharashtra -- in
six weeks` time before going for the polls.
"The division bench of Justice D K Deshmukh and A R Joshi
of the Bombay High Court today disposed off the petition filed
by the Mumbai Hockey Association (MHA) and directed HI to
consider the applications for affiliation of all three units
within six weeks," petitioner`s advocate Vijendra Jabra said.
"The division bench has ruled that until they consider
the applications, HI cannot conduct the elections," Jabra
said.
The latest development came after the Maharashtra Olympic
Association (MOA) yesterday disaffiliated MHA headed by Victor
Ellis, saying it had received written complaints against the
faction from different quarters.
According to MOA secretary Babasaheb Landge the
affiliation to the Ellis-led MHA was given on a temporary
basis and its executive committee yesterday decided to
withdraw the recognition after it had received complaints from
other stakeholders of the game in the state, including Mumbai
and Vidarba Hockey Associations.
All the three units were members of the suspended Indian
Hockey Federation, the forerunner of Hockey India.
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