LHC gives three weeks for solution
Sports Board ordered to resolve matter which is the real association?
The petitioners prayed the court to direct the Punjab Sports Board to submit a report on which was the genuine association. PHOTO: lhc.gov.pk
LAHORE:
The Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Punjab Sports Board secretary to resolve, within three weeks, a complaint about a snooker tournament.
Justice Ijazul Ahsan issued the directions on the petition of Rashid Aziz. Aziz said respondent No3 in his petition, the Snooker and Billiard Association Punjab (SBAP) – with an office on Davis Road – had announced that the 21st Punjab Cup tournament will be held between January 18 and January 31 in six districts: Lahore, Multan Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Sargodha and Rawalpindi. Another body with the same name (respondent No2) – whose office is on Multan Road – had obtained a stay order from a court and the tournament could not be held.
On February 9, respondent No3 had again announced that a two-day snooker tournament would be held from February 11 in Rawalpindi, Multan and Sargodha districts. The association, said the petitioner, promoted the event through text messages and had not published any pamphlets.
Aziz objected to Lahore, Gujranwala and Faislalabad being ‘discriminated against’. He told the court that in the last five years, about 400 players had participated in the tournament. By using text messages as the medium, the respondent No3, he said, had violated the National Sports Policy 2005. The petitioner submitted that both the respondents claimed to be the ‘real’ SBAP. As a result of their dispute, snooker players are suffering, Aziz said.
He prayed the court to direct the Punjab Sports Board to submit a report on which was the genuine association. He also asked the court to restrain respondent No3 from organising the event in only three districts.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 14th, 2013.
The Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Punjab Sports Board secretary to resolve, within three weeks, a complaint about a snooker tournament.
Justice Ijazul Ahsan issued the directions on the petition of Rashid Aziz. Aziz said respondent No3 in his petition, the Snooker and Billiard Association Punjab (SBAP) – with an office on Davis Road – had announced that the 21st Punjab Cup tournament will be held between January 18 and January 31 in six districts: Lahore, Multan Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Sargodha and Rawalpindi. Another body with the same name (respondent No2) – whose office is on Multan Road – had obtained a stay order from a court and the tournament could not be held.
On February 9, respondent No3 had again announced that a two-day snooker tournament would be held from February 11 in Rawalpindi, Multan and Sargodha districts. The association, said the petitioner, promoted the event through text messages and had not published any pamphlets.
Aziz objected to Lahore, Gujranwala and Faislalabad being ‘discriminated against’. He told the court that in the last five years, about 400 players had participated in the tournament. By using text messages as the medium, the respondent No3, he said, had violated the National Sports Policy 2005. The petitioner submitted that both the respondents claimed to be the ‘real’ SBAP. As a result of their dispute, snooker players are suffering, Aziz said.
He prayed the court to direct the Punjab Sports Board to submit a report on which was the genuine association. He also asked the court to restrain respondent No3 from organising the event in only three districts.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 14th, 2013.