SOA polls: HC refuses to vacate orders

Hyderabad: The elections to the State Olympic Association (SOA) were postponed again when Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka of the Telangana High Court refused to vacate the interim order granted earlier in this regard. The judge was dealing with a bunch of writ pleas filed by several sports associations against the Telangana Olympic Associations, its ex-secretary and other members, challenging inter alia their actions of issuing notice for conducting the Annual General Body meeting and elections. The petitioners also claimed that exclusion of the names of their representatives from the electoral roll violated both the Telangana Olympic Association’s Rules and Regulations and Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution. An application to vacate the order came up for hearing, the judge gratned time for the writ petitioners to file their responses and extended the stay of elections till June 10.