 plea against the Delhi High Court's Order in which the affairs were put in the hands of a Committee of Administrators (CoA).){kind=link}
An order has been issued by the he Supreme Court on Monday in the Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) plea against the Delhi High Court’s Order in which the affairs were put in the hands of a Committee of Administrators (CoA).
The bench comprising Justices S. Abdul Nazeer and J.K. Maheshwari had the matter listed before them. The bench, has extended the status quo order on the CoA until further order. The matter will now be heard after four weeks.
The bench led by CJI Ramana had passed the status quo order after being told that the CoA was yet to take over. The CJI-led bench had not however not issued the notice, as the matter was only orally mentioned by the Solicitor General of India.
In 2010, the issue came in fore when a Senior Advocate Rahul Mehra asked for constitution of the Indian Olympic Association as per the elections held in accordance with the National Sports Code. A division bench of the Delhi High Court, having Justice Najmi Waziri and Justice Manmohan, noted that the IOA committee was not continuing as per the National Sports Code, passed an order on August 16, 2022, stating that if a sports federation did not comply with the law of the land, it would receive no recognition from the Government and the benefits and facilities to it would stop promptly. Accordingly, the affairs of IOA were put in the hands of a Committee of Administrators(CoA).
The Central Government was represented in the last hearing by the Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta, who said that the appointment of CoA was seen as outside interference will could eventually lead to the suspension of IOA, in a manner similar to the suspension of the All India the suspension of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) by the FIFA.
It is important to note that recently, the FIFA had suspended the AIFF citing the Supreme Court’s order constituting a CoA to take over its affairs as an “undue influence from third parties”.
The Supreme Court has passed an order and directed the mandate of the Committee of Administrators (CoA) to now see the matters pertaining to the AIFF.
The Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India NV Ramana and Justice CT Ravikumar had ordered quo with respect to the Delhi High Court’s order.