JUDGMENT

Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, J.

1. The Court is called upon to exercise the power of judicial review over the decision of the respondents Union of India (UOI) and Association of Indian Universities (AIU) of conferring the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) trophy, to be given to overall top performing university in Inter University Tournaments of the preceding year, for the year 2009-2010 to the respondent no.3 Guru Nanak Dev University. The petitioner claims that the petitioner and not the respondent no.3 Guru Nanak Dev University is the overall top performing university in Inter University Tournaments for the year 2009-2010.

2. The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) in the guidelines for selection for the said trophy has provided:

(i) For AIU to invite applications and claims from all Universities and to prepare a statement of marks by a stipulated date; no claim from any University/College beyond stipulated cut-off date is to be entertained;

(ii) For AIU to scrutinize the applications, compute and prepare a statement of marks with the help of members from Indian Olympic Association (IOA), Sports Authority of India (SAI) and prominent sports persons/Arjuna Awardees/Padma