DANISH PARABHA SHANKAR KANERIA vs FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Inter Provincial Coordination arts — 2023 MLD 1464 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

Case information

Citation: 2023 MLD 1464 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court: Sindh High Court
Year: 2023
Reporter: MLD
Parties: DANISH PARABHA SHANKAR KANERIA vs FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Inter Provincial Coordination arts
Subject matter: Constitutional

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Judgment text as reported

DANISH PARABHA SHANKAR KANERIA VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Inter Provincial Coordination arts. 25 & 199---Constitutional petition---Cricket player---Life time suspension---Discrimination---Petitioner was an international cricketer who was convicted by authorities for his involvement in Spot Fixing Scandal and authorities imposed life time suspension upon him from playing cricket---Validity---Petitioner did not make any admission until coming forward to confess his involvement in the affair through a privately arranged interview more than six years after exhausting legal options otherwise available to him--- Petitioner was not discriminated as no instance of any participant similarly placed to the petitioner in terms of suffering a life suspension was rehabilitated by Pakistan Cricket Board---Only examples forthcoming were of players who had been handed down lesser bans for a defined period by either the International Cricket Council, Pakistan Cricket Board or another national board, as the case may be, and had then resumed their participation in the game after commencing rehabilitation upon lapse of that period or after the sanction was otherwise lifted by the imposing authority---High Court declined to interfere in the matter--- Constitutional petition was dismissed accordingly.

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