IOC rejects charge-framed clause,warns of derecognition

The IOC rejected suspended IOAs proposal passed in its October 27 Special General Body Meeting.

International Olympic Committee on Friday served an ultimatum to India,saying that the country will be de-recognised if the Indian Olympic Association does not amend its constitution by December 10 as per the world bodys earlier diktat of barring charge-framed persons from contesting elections.

The IOC rejected suspended IOAs proposal passed in its October 27 Special General Body Meeting to refer the cases of charge-framed persons to an internal Ethics Commission instead of barring them from contesting elections and asked it to include a clause in its constitution to provisionally suspend them until a final ruling is made.

The specific clause which has been included in Article V iic; XI1giv; and XXIIv concerning any IOA member charge-framed by a Court in India with respect to an offence which is of serious nature under Indian Penal Code/Prevention of Corruption Act is not satisfactory and does not meet IOCs requirements expressed in our letter of 5 September 2013,the letter,written by IOC Director General Christophe De Kepper said.

It was indeed requested that this clause mention expressly that such members will not be eligible to run for IOA elections and will be provisionally suspended from the IOA until a final ruling is made.

8230; the IOC is not in a position to approve the new IOA Constitution until the Articles mentioned above are amended accordingly. Its therefore requested that suspended IOA meet again in a General Assembly and adopt these very last amendments as per IOC requirements, the IOC said.

If these process is not completed successfully prior to the next IOC Board meeting i.e before 10 December 2013,the IOC Executive Board might consider further action against the suspended IOA,including a proposal to withdraw IOC recognition at the next IOC session.

We hope that the suspended IOA will now take appropriate and responsible action to finalise this process successfully without forcing the IOC to take any further action.

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The world bodys ultimatum came after its directives were repeatedly sought to be diluted by the officials of the suspended IOA and any deviation from the IOCs diktat could now jeopardise Indias participation in international events.

Till now following IOAs suspension on December 4 last,Indian sporstpersons have been allowed participation in international events either under the Indian flag or under the banner of international organisations but once de-recognised,they will not be able to compete in Olympics,Asian Games and other international events organised by international federations.