Published: Apr 17, 2016, 12:53 PM (IST)
Edited: Apr 17, 2016, 12:53 PM (IST)
Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) has decided to protect its office-bearers and ignored Supreme Court proposal to make its officials pay Rs. 1 crore for disobeying Delhi High Court orders, requesting the court to quickly dismiss its plea for regularising the alleged illegal construction of RP Mehra block at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. With regards to the disobeying the Delhi High Court’s 2013 orders to play Rs. 10,000 to MCD; the ministry of Urban Development, Delhi Urban Arts Commission and ASI along with a bench of justices JS Khehar and C Nagappan had asked the DDCA to name the officials responsible for rebelling against the HC order and get them pay the price for going against the court. FULL CRICKET SCORECARD: Kings XI Punjab vs Rising Pune Supergiants, IPL 2016, Match 10 at Mohali.
Since DDCA failed to comply to the court orders, HC has dismissed it’s application of revival case in March this year, as reported on cricbuzz. With Bombay HC recently announcing shift of IPL Maharashtra matches after April to which DDCA offered to host two IPL 2016 play-off games scheduled in Pune owing to the water crisis in the state. READ: IPL 2016 Play-Off matches: DDCA offers to host fixtures which were scheduled to be
“I on behalf of DDCA offer that our association is ready to host playoffs matches of IPL. We assure you our best of co-operation to BCCI/IPL for the said matches if they are shifted and allotted to us,” Khanna said in a statement addressed to Shukla. The Cricket Board has 18 days to look for new venues for 13 matches in May should it decide not to challenge the order in the Supreme Court. This means that 13 matches, including the final in Mumbai on May 29, cannot be held in Maharashtra.
