Supreme Court of India

All India Football Federation v. Rahul Mehra & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 9 S.C.R. 1146

Bench Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Joymalya Bagchi JJ.

Decided 19 September 2025

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we order and direct that: (i) The elections to the Executive Committee of AIFF should be held expeditiously and shall be concluded in terms of the time schedule which has been indicated in the tabulated statement set out above; (ii) The elections shall be conducted in a manner consistent with the provisions of Article 26 of the draft Constitution.

Judgment, page 54

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Should Eminent Players be in the General Body; if so, to what extent; what should be the Eligibility criteria to be designated an Eminent Player; whether ‘Office bearers’ should be limited to President, Treasurer, Secretary; whether the number of VPs should be increased to ensure regional representation; whether public servants should be included under disqualification events; whether ‘indirect interest’ should be retained in the definition of ‘conflict of interest’; should the All India Football Federation (AIFF) Constitution apply to state associations; what is the

Authorities it was built on

1971 Damyanti Naranga v. The Union of India and Others cited by 17
2018 Public Interest Foundation & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr. cited by 5
1952 N. P. Ponnuswami v. Returning Officer, Namakkal Constituency and Others cited by 4
1954 Jagannath v. Jaswant Singh and Others cited by 2
2016 Board of Control for Cricket v. Cricket Association of Bihar & Ors. cited by 2
2016 Board of Control for Cricket v. Cricket Association of Bihar & Ors. cited by 2
1957 Dr. N. B. Khare v. Election Commission of India cited by 1
2022 The Board of Control for Cricket in India v. Cricket Association of Bihar & Ors cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2026 The Tiruchirappalli District Cricket Association v. Anna Nagar Cricket Club & Anr. Etc. mentioned

Of those, 1 mentioned

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