Must bring curtain down on issues concerning All India Football Federation: SC

The Supreme Court on Thursday said it must bring the curtain down on issues plaguing the All India Football Federation AIFF including the objections raised to certain aspects of its draft constitutionWe must now bring the finalityI mean the curtain down on the issue related to the federation AIFF a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud saidThe bench also comprising Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala asked senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan assisting it as an amicus curiae friend of the court to have a meeting with the counsels of all stakeholders and find out key objections to the draft constitution of AIFFWe will list it for hearing after the hearing of the Constitution bench concludes the bench saidThe amicus said everybody will have some kind of objectionsResponding to the query of the bench as to who is heading the AIFF currently after the elections the amicus said Kalyan Chaubey a former goalkeeper from West Bengal is the president of the sports bodyWe do not know how this Chaubey has become the President Mr Bhaichung Bhutia was part of the list of 24 eminent sportspersons This man Chaubey was not there But he has been elected as the President Sankaranarayanan saidAlso Read Operation Dost shows friendship between India and us Turkish Envoy Firat SunelChaubey was elected the president in the elections conducted as per the order of the top court on September 2 2022 at the Football House hereEarlier the bench had observed that the popular sport of football needs to be taken forward and asked people to give suggestions to the amicus curiae on the draft constitution for the sports national federation observing that we are doing anything except footballOn November 9 last year the bench had asked senior advocate Sankaranarayanan who is assisting the bench as an amicus curiae to tabulate the objections so that the draft constitution can be finalisedPrior to this the top court had directed the termination of the mandate of a threemember committee of administrators appointed by it in May last year to manage the affairs of the AIFFIt had modified its earlier orders to facilitate the revocation of the suspension which was imposed on the AIFF by international football federation FIFA and the holding of the Under17 Womens World Cup 2022 in IndiaOn May 18 last year the bench had appointed the panel headed by Justice retired Anil R Dave and having former chief election commissioner S Y Qureshi and former Indian football team captain Bhaskar Ganguly and ousted NCP leader Praful Patelled management committee that had exceeded its tenure by over twoandhalf yearsHowever this came in the way of the holding of the Under17 Womens World Cup 2022 as no elected AIFF body was at the helmOn August 16 last year FIFA had suspended India for undue influence from third parties and said the tournament cannot currently be held in India as plannedThe country however later hosted the FIFA event from October 1130 2022This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever