The bench told senior advocate Maneka Guruswamy, appearing for the state football associations, “We do not appreciate your surreptitious approach to thwart the orders of the court.” Ultimately you have to decide whether you want to organize a tournament or not. We were also watching what was happening after our last week’s order.’
Maneka said she has also filed an application and wants it to be listed along with other applications filed by other parties. He said, ‘We would also like the tournament to be held in this country. The future of our country in football depends on this tournament. The bench said it would consider all the applications on Thursday during the hearing.
Initially, senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for the CoA, submitted that he has filed the contempt petition as unfortunately some disturbing incidents have taken place and he is facing “problem in implementation of the court order due to interference of one person”. which has been thrown out by this Court. He said that he found that due to this intervention the central government was also facing some pressure and he had to file an amendment application.