# Sports

SC seeks BCCI response on Sreesanth’s plea challenging life ban

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the BCCI’s response on a plea by former cricketer S. Sreesanth challenging a lifetime…

IANS | New Delhi | February 5, 2018 2:19 pm

SC seeks BCCI response on Sreesanth’s plea challenging life ban

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the BCCI’s response on a plea by former cricketer S. Sreesanth challenging a lifetime ban on him by the apex cricketing body in the wake of an alleged spot-fixing scandal.

Issuing the notice, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud gave the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) four weeks to respond.

It also gave Sreesanth another four weeks to file his rejoinder to the response by the BCCI.

Senior counsel Parag Tripathi accepted the notice on behalf of the BCCI.

Senior counsel Salman Khurshid appearing for Sreesanth said that banning him was bad and banning for life was not justified after he has been discharged by a trial court of criminal charges over lack of evidence.

# India

‘Secular’ and ‘Socialist’ in preamble have a widespread acceptance of the “We the people”, SC

The court refused to undertake an “exhaustive examination” of the prayers challenging the insertion of ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ in the preamble of the constitution by the forty-second amendment to the constitution in 1976.

# Cities

SC directs Delhi govt, police to set up checkpoints at 113 entry points to combat toxic air

Expressing dissatisfaction with the steps taken to control and combat toxic air pollution in the national capital, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the Delhi government and police to immediately set up checkpoints at all 113 entry points to the city to monitor the entry of trucks carrying only essential supplies.

# India

Gyanvapi row: SC notice on plea for ASI survey of sealed area

The Supreme Court on Friday sought the response from the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee that manages the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi on a plea for a survey by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) of the sealed area of the mosque