All India Football Federation vs Rahul Mehra

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2022 Supreme(SC) 1564

D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, SURYA KANT, A. S. BOPANNA
All India Football Federation – Appellant
Versus
Rahul Mehra – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Mr. Premtosh Mishra, Advocate, Mr. Deblamya C. Bannerjee, Advocate, Mr. Rohan Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Kartik Bhatnagar, Advocate, Mr. Anmol, Advocate, Mr. Nicholas Choudhury, Advocate, Mr. Shreesh Chadha, Advocate, M/S. Karanjawala & Co., Advocate, For the Appellant / Mr. Sanjay Jain, ASG, Mr. Apoorva Kurup, Advocate, Mr. Arkaj Kumar, Advocate, Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Advocate, Mr. Nishant Tripathi, Advocate, Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Advocate, Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Advocate, Mr. Amrish Kumar, Advocate, Mr. Rahul Mehra, in person Mr. Chaitanya Gosain, Advocate, Mr. Amanpreet Singh, Advocate, Mr. Hemant Phalpher, Advocate, Mr. Nar Hari Singh, Advocate, Mr. M. Tabish Zia, Advocate, Mr. Anshuman Amresh, Advocate, Mr. Gaurav kumar, Advocate, Mr. Manvendra Singh, Advocate, Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Advocate, Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Samar Bansal, Advocate, Mr. Nagarkatti Kartik Uday, Advocate, Mr. Madhav Gupta, Advocate, Mr. Vedant Kapur, Advocate, Ms. Jhanvi Dubey, Advocate, Mr. Siddharth Nath, Advocate, Mr. Prashant Bhushaan, Advocate, Mr. Harsaavarhar Kotla, Advocate, Mr. Kshitij Maheshwari, Advocate, Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Advocate, Mr. Harish Salve, Sr. Advocate, Mr. K V Vishwanathan, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Ritin Rai, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Sanjeev Kapoor, Advocate, Mr. Sahil Narang, Advocate, Mr. Dhritiman Roy, Advocate, Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Ayushman Kacker, Advocate, M/s Khaitan & Co., Advocate, Dr. Menaka Guruswamy, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Yash S. Vijay, Advocate, Mr. Prateek K. Chadha, Advocate, Ms. Ayushi Rajput, Advocate, Ms. Radhika Dhanotia, Advocate, Mr. Utkarsh Pratap, Advocate, For the Respondent.

ORDER

1. We have heard Mr Sanjay Jain, Additional Solicitor General, Mr Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Senior Counsel for the Committee of Administrators[1], Mr Harish Salve and Mr K V Vishwanathan, Senior Counsel for Football Sports Development Limited[2] (applicant in IA No 98733 of 2022), Mr Rahul Mehra, who is the petitioner in person before the High Court and Dr Menaka Guruswamy, Senior Counsel for the State Associations and .

[1] "CoA"

[2] "FSDL"

2. In pursuance of the previous order of this Court dated 18 May 2022, the CoA has submitted its final report, together with a tabulated statement on 15 July 2022.

3. Mr Gopal Sankaranarayanan submitted that the CoA received nearly 215 comments from objectors, including the State Associations and FIFA-AFC. It has been stated that nearly 98% of the objections have been accepted. Moreover, it has been stated that a delegation of FIFA visited India, following upon its emails dated 25 May 2022 and 3 June 2022, and the CoA has made all efforts to ensure that the concerns of the international body are duly taken care of to obviate any point of friction.

4. In terms of the way forward which was indicated in the earlier order of this Court, the next stag

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2022 Supreme(SC) 1564

D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, SURYA KANT, A. S. BOPANNAAll India Football Federation – AppellantVersusRahul Mehra – Respondent

D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, SURYA KANT, A. S. BOPANNA
All India Football Federation – Appellant
Versus
Rahul Mehra – Respondent