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Delhi High Court Rejects Plea to Bar Prasar Bharati From Calling BCCI Team ‘Team India’

The bench said labeling the BCCI side Team India on public broadcasts violates no law, citing global norms that discourage state control in sport.

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The actions of Prasar Bharti, in projecting a private team as the Indian National team, amount to misrepresentation, the petition said. (Twitter)

Overview

  • Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela dismissed the PIL, calling it a sheer wastage of the court’s time.
  • Prasar Bharati, which operates Doordarshan and All India Radio, was the target of the petition seeking to stop references to the BCCI side as the national team.
  • The petitioner, advocate Reepak Kansal, argued BCCI is a private society not recognized as an NSF or public authority and claimed potential violations of the Emblems and Names Act and the Flag Code.
  • The court said telecasts referring to Team India and displaying the national flag breach no statute, questioning the premise that the cricket side does not represent the country.
  • The bench refused a request for three days to file more documents, questioned the petition’s maintainability, and referenced prior BCCI rulings and Olympic Charter principles against state interference.