DDCA Withdraws Plea Seeking Occupancy Certificate to Host T20 WC

DDCA withdrew its plea from the Delhi High Court seeking an occupancy certificate from SDMC to host T20 WC matches.

Chetan Chauhan. (Photo Courtesy: Pepsi IPL 9 Twitter)

• DDCA withdrew its plea from the Delhi High Court seeking an occupancy certificate from South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to host T20 matches in New Delhi after the municipality said it wants the cricket body to pay Rs 50 lakh and complete all formalities in 20 days.
  
• The DDCA needs to complete 60 per cent of the remaining work at the ground and no match can be held under “unsafe circumstances”.
  

DDCA withdrew its plea from the Delhi High Court seeking an occupancy certificate from South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to host T20 matches at the Ferozshah Kotla ground in New Delhi after the municipality said it wants the cricket body to pay Rs 50 lakh and complete all formalities in 20 days.

The Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) made its request to withdraw the application before a bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vibhu Bakhru, which was accepted.

During the hearing, the SDMC, as directed by the high court on Monday, informed it that it has passed a resolution by which DDCA has to pay Rs 50 lakh as security amount and comply with all the norms within 20 days.

Advocate Gaurang Kanth, appearing for SDMC, submitted that if DDCA will not complete its work within 20 days, then its security of Rs 50 lakh will stand forfeited.

The bench then asked senior advocate Sandeep Sethi, appearing for DDCA, whether the cricketing body can comply with the resolution and complete the work in 20 days. It also asked if DDCA can give an undertaking in pursuance to the resolution.To this, the DDCA counsel assured the bench.

Our intent is very clear and we will complete the work within 20 days.

DDCA counsel

The bench then said, if the work is not completed, then no occupancy certificate will be given.

We don’t want any further litigation. Therefore, you have to comply within 20 days, otherwise no matches will be allowed.

The Bench

It further said that DDCA needed to complete 60 per cent of the remaining work at the ground and no match can be held under “unsafe circumstances”.