V. Kameswar Rao, J.

1. This batch of three writ petitions involves a challenge to the inaction of a National Sports Federation (NSF) in the country i.e. Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) for not selecting Wrestling team for Commonwealth Games 2014 in accordance with the National Sports Code (‘Code’ in short) as formulated by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India.

2. The parties, more particularly, the respondents shall be referred to as per their position in the memo of parties in W.P.(C) No. 3914/2014, which would be, respondent No. 1 (Ministry of Sports), respondent No. 2 (Indian Olympic Association), respondent No. 3 (Sports Authority of India), respondent No. 4 (Wrestling Federation of India), respondent No. 5 (Mr. Vinod Kumar, Chief Coach).

3. The aforesaid Code was a subject matter of a writ petition [W.P.(C) No. 2310/2012] filed by the Indian Olympic Association (OIA) wherein the competency of the respondent No. 1, Union of India to formulate the same was challenged as being beyond its Executive power. This Court, while holding the competency of respondent No. 1 in para 86, has held as under:

“86. For the foregoing reasons, it is held that th