The Committee of Administrators (CoA) of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has moved the Supreme Court seeking contempt of court action against the body’s former president Praful Patel and several office-bearers of States’ football associations for “interfering with the administration of justice” while accusing them of attempting to defeat the purpose of the Supreme Court’s supervision of the football federation through the CoA.
The petition said the court had on August 3 recorded the consensus among the various parties, including States associations, to first conduct the elections to the AIFF in a time-bound fashion and then to finalise the Constitution. India is scheduled to host the Women's Under-27 World Cup in October 2022
The CoA, in its contempt plea represented by senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, said the States associations had attempted to resile the court’s order, but indirectly.
