Indian news round-up

The secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), JY lele has said that the Indian team would not be participating in the proposed one-day series in Dubai in September against arch-rivals Pakistan.

A Dubai based newspaper said that the Dubai Cricket Council (DCC) confirmed Pakistan's participation but the BCCI was saying that the Indian team was not available for the tour. The newspaper also quoted Lele ``we have received a request from the DCC but we are not in a position to accept their offer. We have written to the DCC regarding this matter, stating our refusal.''

The newspaper said that the Pakistan team had confirmed its participation in the tournament on their way back from Toronto where they are slated to play India in a one-day series.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday filed a contempt petition in the Delhi High Court against Rahul Mehra and Shantanu Sharma, who had earlier filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) accusing the Board of mismanagement.

The BCCI counsel Radha Rangarajan, seeked restraint on them from expressing their opinions in their website, Rangarajan said ``A lot of material has been fed on the website by Mehra and Sharma to launch a media trial against BCCI even when their petition is pending before the court. This amounts to clear interference in the administration of justice and contempt of court.'' and added ``interference into the judicial proceess will attract provisions of Section 2, 10, 12 and 15 of the Contempt of Court Act which prohibits parallel trial.''

The Division bench comprising Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice RS Sodhi, while adjourning the case till July 12, said ``the judiciary decides the cases purely on the basis of material before it which is a public document.''