Azhar case hearing adjourned again
A Hyderabad court on Wednesday adjourned
to next week the hearing on the main petition of former India
captain Mohammad Azharuddin, challenging the life ban imposed on
him by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
The second additional chief judge of the city civil court J
Shyam Sunder Rao posted the hearing for September 20 as the
interim stay granted on July 18 by the high court, on further
proceedings of the case following a revision petition filed by
BCCI in the high court, was yet to be disposed of.
Justice Sudarshan Reddy of the AP high court granted interim
stay on further proceedings of the main petition filed by
Azharuddin after the lower court rejected the BCCI's plea for more
time to file a written statement on the match-fixing scandal.
The BCCI also filed an interlocutary petition in the lower
court seeking striking down of certain averments in Azhar's
main petition and sought more time to file the written
statement. But the lower court insisted that the statement be
filed by July 19.
Aggrieved by it, the BCCI filed a revision petition in the high
court but the hearing over it is yet to take place.
Mail Cricket Editor