Published: Apr 08, 2016, 12:55 AM (IST)
Edited: Apr 08, 2016, 12:55 AM (IST)
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday asked a petitioner to file a fresh plea on his seeking shifting of IPL matches out of the state due to “severe drought.” “I made an attempt to move the High Court asking the BCCI [the Board of Control for Cricket in India] to shift IPL matches out of Karnataka as it is facing water problems and severe drought conditions,” advocate Diwakar, the petitioner, told PTI. The court, however, asked him to file the petition afresh as he did not make IPL Chairman Rajeev Shukla a party before the petition could be taken up for hearing, he said. IPL 2016 Schedule, Time Table, Fixture PDF Download
“The court directed me to file the petition afresh on Monday [April 11] as Rajeev Shukla was not made the party to the case,” he said. The move by the petitioner comes in the wake of the Bombay High Court pulling up BCCI and Maharashtra and Mumbai Cricket Associations over “wastage” of water when the state is reeling under a severe drought, on a plea against holding IPL. The PIL had challenged the use of nearly 60 lakh litres of water to maintain pitches at the three stadiums in Maharashtra that are set to hold IPL matches. IPL 2016: BCCI has converted cricket into serious commercial enterprise, feels MS Gill
Earlier, lashing out at the BCCI for converting Indian public to “zombies of cricket” by foisting tournaments like IPL “tamasha”, former Sports Minister MS Gill on Thursday asked the Board to have some sanity in its thinking and shift the matches of the lucrative T20 competition out of drought-hit Maharashtra.
