HC drops contempt proceedings against two cricket fans

NEW DELHI, AUG 17: The Delhi High Court on Thursday dropped contempt proceedings against two cricket fans - Rahul Mehra and Shantanu Sharm...

NEW DELHI, AUG 17: The Delhi High Court on Thursday dropped contempt proceedings against two cricket fans – Rahul Mehra and Shantanu Sharma – for allegedly launching a media trial against the Cricket Board after the closure of their website in which some material against the board was uploaded by them.

Accepting their submission that the website in which they had uploaded certain material against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), had been closed on August 3, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Arijit Passayat and Justice D K Jain said no new material was uploaded by them.

The BCCI had filed a contempt petition against Sharma and Mehra, himself an advocate, alleging that they had launched a parallel media trial against the board even when their plea against it was pending before the court.

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BCCI counsel Radha Rangaswamy stated that their action amounted to a clear contempt of court.

Rangaswamy, however, admitted that no new material was uploaded by the duo after court’s notices to them. The court also expressed its satisfaction over Mehra’s explanation regarding existence of the earlier ensure that material in the hyper-link is also not available to any one," Mehra said.

Mehra and Sharma had filed a PIL against the BCCI accusing it of mismanaging the affairs of cricket in country.

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