{"id":85609,"date":"2025-09-11T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=85609"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:39:14","slug":"india-pakistan-asia-cup-match-challenged-in-indian-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/india-pakistan-asia-cup-match-challenged-in-indian-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Pakistan Asia Cup match challenged in Indian Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of India<\/a> to ban the India-Pakistan match in the Asia Cup 2025.<\/p>\n

According to Indian media reports, a petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking a ban on the Asia Cup<\/a> cricket match between India and Pakistan on September 14 and declaring it unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

The petition was filed by Pune-based social activist Ketan Tirudkar, who has taken the stand that matches between India and Pakistan should not be played in view of the recent war between the two countries.<\/p>\n

The petition further states that this match is a violation of Article 21 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to life and personal liberty for Indian citizens.<\/p>\n

According to Indian media, the hearing on the petition will be held on September 12 before a bench headed by the Chief Justice of India.<\/p>\n

BCCI Statement<\/h2>\n

Earlier, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Devjit Saikia, while explaining the decision to play against Pakistan in the Asia Cup, had said that India\u2019s participation in international competitions is in accordance with government policy.<\/p>\n

He clarified that it is not possible to refuse to participate in any tournament in which several countries participate, as per India\u2019s recent policy, there is no restriction on playing against these countries in any international or multinational tournament.<\/p>\n

According to Devjit Saikia, the BCCI fully follows the instructions of the central government with whom India has tense political relations, the Asia Cup is a multinational tournament, and India will fully participate in it.<\/p>\n

Under the same principle, India will play matches against all teams, including Pakistan, in other events held under the ICC. He said that India will not play against any enemy country in the bilateral series.<\/p>\n

He further said that if India refuses to play in a multinational event against any country, Indian sports may face a ban at the international level, which will harm the players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of India to ban the India-Pakistan match in the Asia Cup 2025. According to Indian media reports, a petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking a ban on the Asia Cup cricket match between India and Pakistan on September 14 and declaring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1960],"class_list":["post-85609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-india-pakistan-match"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85613,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85609\/revisions\/85613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}