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2025 Supreme(SC) 1713

PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, JOYMALYA BAGCHI
All India Football Federation – Appellant
Versus
Rahul Mehra – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Ranjit Kumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddhesh Shirish Kotwal, AOR Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. T.illayarasu, Adv. Ms. Vaidehi Kolhe, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Guha, Adv. Mrs. Rasika Jalan, Adv. Mr. Nagarkatti Kartik Uday, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. K. M. Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Adv. Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vatsal Joshi, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Chitransh Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anuj Srinivas Udupa, Adv. Ms. Satvika Thakur, Adv. Ms. Nikita Capoor, Adv. Ms. Yogya Rajpurohit, Adv. Mr. S. Subramaniam, Adv. Mr. Ayush Ranjan, Adv. Ms. Ritika Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Arkaj Kumar, Adv. Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv. Dr. N. Visakamurthy, AOR Mr. Nar Hari Singh, AOR Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ritin Rai, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjeev K. Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Sahil Narang, Adv. Mr. Dhritiman Roy, Adv. Mr. Ayushman Kacker, Adv. Mr. Vidush Sinha, Adv. Mr. Raghav Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Adv. M/S. Khaitan & Co., AOR Dr. Menaka Guruswamy, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prateek K Chadha, AOR Mr. Utkarsh Pratap, Adv. Mr. Sreekar Aechuri, Adv. Mr. Aniket Chauhaan, Adv. Ms. Bhumika Yadav, Adv. Ms. Shaswati Parhia, Adv. Ms. Kashish Jain, Adv. Mr. Kotla Harshavardhan, Adv. Mr. Raghav Kohli, Adv. Mr. N. Sai Vinod, AOR Mr. Anmol Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Adv., (Amicus Curiae) Mr. Samar Bansal, Amicus Curiae Mr. Siddharth Nath, Adv. Mr. Asjad Hussain, Adv. Ms. Anunaya Chowdhary, Adv. Mr. Vedant Kapur, Adv. Mr. Tushar Shrivastava, Adv. Ms. Jhanvi Dubey, Adv. Ms. Shreya Nair, Adv. Mr. Vishal Sinha, Adv. Ms. Trisha Chandran, Adv. Mr. Nagarkatti Kartik Uday, AOR Ms. Hetu Arora Sethi, AOR Mr. Shivam Singh, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Bhat, Adv. Mr. Nirmal Prasad, Adv. Mr. Yoshit Jain, Adv. Mr. Shubham Janghu, Adv. Mr. Ishwar Singh, Adv. Ms. Anitha Shenoy, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sravan Kumar Karanam, AOR Mr. Akshay Mann, Adv. Mr. Kumar Abhishek, Adv. Mr. Sadhana Madhavan, Adv. Mr. Divyanshu Rai , AOR Mr. Raghenth Basant, Sr. Adv. Ms. Kaushitaki Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kshitij Maheshwari, Adv. Ms. Purnima Krishna, AOR

Table of Content
1. establishment of aiff and historical context. (Para 1 , 2 , 3)
2. need for governance reforms in aiff. (Para 4 , 12 , 18)
3. impugned order and compliance with sports law. (Para 8 , 9 , 10)
4. disqualification criteria based on criminal charges. (Para 22 , 24 , 60 , 62)
5. eligibility and representation of eminent players. (Para 26 , 29 , 38)
6. need for amendments under judicial oversight. (Para 92 , 95 , 101 , 110)

JUDGMENT :

1. Leave granted.

“But as freedom drew close, football’s erstwhile role as a nationalist symbol sharply diminished owing to the game’s increasing communal and regional overtones. Despite the Indian national team’s worthy performances at international level in the first fifteen years after 1947, gradually, regionalism seemed to become a more distinct and viable alternative in Indian football”. 2[Boria Majumdar & Kausik Bandyopadhyay, ‘A Social History of Indian Football: Striving to Score’ (Sport in the Global Society, Routledge, 2008, Taylor and Francis), pg. 109.]

3.1 On the field, teamwork compels individuals to set aside personal distinctions and work together, cultivating habits of cooperation, solidarity, and mutual respect. Accessibility of s


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