ZINDA TILISMATH CRICKET CLUB v. THE STATE OF TELANGANA
Court: High Court for State of Telangana
Bench: NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA
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High Court for State of Telangana judgment dated 2026-04-06. ZINDA TILISMATH CRICKET CLUB v. THE STATE OF TELANGANA. Read the judgment and case details on...
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I 33001 [ IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA ATH (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEETUIAPAKA PETITION N : 18058 OF 2025 Zinda Tilismath Cricket Club, a represented by lts Hon. Secretary lmaduddin Farooqui, son of having its office at Flat No. S, 3rd Floor, Rock Castle Regency Residen ce, Road No. 6, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-500034 ANT. ] 1. The State Of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Sports and Youth erabad, Tela a, lndia 2. Devraj, c Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of lndia praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed therewith, the High Court may be pleased to grant a writ Order or Direction, more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the action of the Respondent No.
2 in not promoting the Petitioner Club to the'A'Division despite their being only 19 teams in the 'A' Division, contrary to the recommendations dated 29. 10. 2023 issued by the Single Member Committee appointed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Special Leave Petition (C) No. 6779 ot 2021 , which recommendations were directed to be implemented by the Honourable Supreme of lndia in its Order daled O5. 12. 2023 in Special Leave Petition (C) No. 6779 ot 202'l and Order of this Hon'ble Court in W. P. No. 18413 of 2024 dated 12. 09. 2024, thereby depriving the Petitioner Club from participating in the league matches for the 2025-26 season, as illegal, unlawful, arbitrary and violative of Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of lndia and consequently direct the Respondent No. 2 to promote the Petitioner Club to the 'A' Division.
WB Petition urder section 151 CPC praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed in support of the petition, the High court may be pleased to direct the Respondent No. 2 to permit the Petitioner to participate in the A Division for the. ongoing League Matches for 2o25-26 season by filling the vacancy shown as "-" in the Group fixtures for the A Division League Champion Ship 2025-26. Counsel for the Petitioner: SR! ZEESHAN ADNAN Counsel for the, Respondent No. 1: GP FOR SPO Counsel for the, Respondent No. 2: SRI V. RAJENDH ER RAO, SC FOR HCA The Court made the following: ORDER . r i, IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TETANGANA AT HYDERABAI) THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAI{A N of 06. 04. 20. 26 Between: Zinda Tilismath Cricket Club .. Petitioner AND The State of Telanga. na, Represented by its Principal Secretar5r, sports and Youth Services Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad, Telang€u1a, tndia and another. .
Respondents ORDER: This writ Petition is filed challenging the action of respondent in not promoting the petitioner club to the A, Division despite their being only 19 teams in the A, Division, contrary to the recommendations dated 29-Lo. 2023 issued by the Single Member committee appointed by the Hon'ble supreme court in Special Leave Petition (C) No. 6779 of 2O2L, which recommendations were d. irected. to be implemented by the Honourable Supreme of India in its order dated 05. 12. 2023 in Special Leave Petition (C) No. 6779 of 2021 and Order of this Hon'lrte oourt in w. P. No. 18413 0f 2024, dated 12. 09. 2024, thereby depriving the Petitioner Club from participating in the league matches for the 2025-26 season, as illegal, unlawful, arbitrary and violative of Articles L4, 19 and 2l of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the Respondent No. 2 to pronrote the Petitioner Club to the A Division and pass such other ord. er. 2. He,erd Mr.
Zeeshan Adnan Mahmood, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Government Pleader for Sports for respondent No. l and Sri V. Rajendher Rao, learned Standing Counsel for Hyderat,ad Cricket Association for respondent No. 2. Perused the record. 3. Le'arned counsel for the petitioner submits that this Court, by its interim order dated 27. 06. 2025 in this writ Petition, has directe<l as follows: "Notice Before Admission. Post after four (4) weeks. List on 25. 07. 2025. Learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner submits that pr:titioner-club is affrliated to the respondent No. 2 Hyderabad Cricket Association and at the present the / petitioner - club is in'B' Division. As per the Supervisory committee Report, number of teams in 'A' Division is reduced 19 teams from 22 teams contrar5l to the report of the Single Member Committee, dated 29. 10. 2023 appointed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Special Leave Petition (C) No. 6779 of 2021 and also orders dated L2. O9.
2O24 passed by this Court in WP. No. t84l3 of 2O24. ln view of the same the respondents have to consider the petitioner's claim to include them in "A" Division for the ongoing kague Championship 2025-26 which is commenced from 24. 06. 2025. After hearing both sides, this Court is of tle considered view that the petitioner-Club has to make representation to the Supervisory Committee for considering their case for including in 'A" Division. After making such representation by the petitioner-club, the Supervisory Committee shall consider the representation filed by the petitioner-club as per the existing Rules and pass appropriate orders for permitting the petitioner-club to participate in the \ ongoing league matches in'A' Division. \ List on 25. 07. 2025. " 4. Learned counsel for petitioner further relied upon the order dated 12. 09. 2024 passed by this Court in W. P. No. 18413 of 2024 and the operative portion of the said order reads as under: '13.
This Court considering the issue in the larger magnitude and in the interest of the budding cricketers and to any controversy in future, more specifically scheduling of "roId all formats of [eagUJ matches for the season 2024-25 hereby -sri (Retired), appoint Honble Justice P. Naveen Rao, Judge as ffiin Court for the State of Telangana supervisory committee. supervisory committee to 14. This court requests the learned the teams and for the undertake the exercise of finanalizing that was adopted sarne, shall adopt the system and procedure 'tt lt by tlre Single Member committee for the cricket season 2023- 24, fitr conducting league matches for the cricket season 2024- 25. 15. Respondent Nos. 2 and 3 shall extend all necessary assisitance and support to the supervisory committee and shail provLde necessary infrastructure and emoluments on par with the flthics Oflicer of t]re 2nd respondent. 16. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of. 5.
Accordingly, in view of the interim order dated 27. o6. 2o2s passed by this court in the present writ petition, and in terms of the order dated 12. 09. 2024 passed in w. p. No. 1g413 of 2024, for the reasons alike, the writ petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. Pending miscellaneous applications, if any, shall stand closed. SD'. A. H. S. GOWRI SHANKAR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR 6 /TRUE COPYII SECTION OFFICER To 1. The PrinciPtSecretary, Sports and Youth Services Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad, Telangana, lndia. 2. The secrel? :y, Devraj,. Hydgrabgd cricket Association, having F. its office at -lnternational Cricket Stadium, lajiv-tlandhi Uppal, Hyderabad. 3 One C;C to SRI ZEESHAN ADNAN MAHMOOD, Advbcate [OpUC] 4 Two c)cs to GP FoR sPoRTS, High court for the state of relangina, at Hyderalad TOUTJ 5. One CC to SRI V. RAJENDHER RAO, SC FOR HCA tOpUCI 6. Two CD Copies PSK. PSK k t , CC TODAY HIGH COI'RT DATED iO610412026 "T I frL ORDER % i s WP. No.
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