BAI clerical error problem – Prathamesh Kulkarni to get wild card entry

The Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court has dominated that badminton participant Prathamesh Kulkarni was entitled to play on the India Junior International Grand Prix 2022 as a wild card entry since his identify couldn’t undergo the participant listing attributable to a clerical error by Badminton Association of India (BAI).

The division bench of Justices RV Ghuge and AR Pednekar handed the order throughout a particular listening to that was held on Aug 15, Independence Day. The bench was listening to Kulkarni’s petition which said that he had utilized to take part in two tournaments of promotional nature. After issuing discover on August 12, the court docket sat specifically on a court docket vacation because the listing of members for the worldwide problem was to be despatched at 5 pm on August 15 itself.

The India Junior International Grand Prix 2022 is meant to be held in Pune from August 30 and the India Maharashtra International Challenge 2022 will begin in Nagpur from September 13. The BAI had cleared Kulkarni’s kind from the feminine class, which he tried to get corrected. However, as an alternative of rectifying the error, his software was handled as withdrawn by BAI.

Kulkarni clarified that he didn’t need guilty anyone, however sought that the scenario be rectified and he thus prayed for a Wild Card Quota. He sought that BAI be directed to finish the method to allow him to take part within the Pune matches from August 30.

After a short listening to, the Court was satisfied that the shape submitted by Kulkarni was so as, inside the deadline and by no means withdrawn. The court docket famous that it was “due to the bungling of BAI” that the scenario had arisen.

“We hold that if there is no impediment, Kulkarni would be entitled to play at Pune from 30.08.2022, by giving him a Wild Card entry, if permissible. However, this would be subject to the policies or guidelines of the Badminton Association of Asia and the Badminton World Federation,” mentioned the bench.

The bench of their order additional recorded the submission of BAI that within the occasion Kulkarni misses the Pune match, BAI would ahead his entry to the India Maharashtra International Challenge 2022, which will likely be held from September 13 at Nagpur.

“We record that there shall be no further mistake by BAI with regard to Kulkarni and he would be held eligible to play at Nagpur,” the 5-page order recorded.

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