Mohun Bagn banned by AIFF for upcoming two I-Leagues including this edition.

            Mohun Bagan club is convicted the guilty by AIFF’s one man commission  justice A.K. Ganguly’s report & suspended by the AIFF core committee for upcoming next two editions of I-league including this edition they played yet in the 22c clause of I-League act. All the matches of Mohun Bagan played yet would be counted as a null & void, AIFF will announce the new fixture soon.

           The incident had taken place in the 68^th match of I-League on 9^th December in the match against arch rival East Bengal at Salt Lake stadium while the Green & Maroon brigade refused to restart the match after half time regarding the heavy fan fury of Kolkata crowd which led one of their key player Rahim Nabi injured heavily by a missile pelted from the crowd.

             Justice Ganguly the former supreme court judge conducted the hearing between Green & Maroon officials & AIFF representatives on 24^th December at New Delhi & forwarded his entire report in a sealed envelope to the core committee of AIFF which comprises of four I-League clubs East Bengal, Shillong Lajong, Pune FC & Dempo SC,  few representatives of AIFF & co-opted member Suando Dhar the CEO of I-League & Kushal Das the honourabel AIFF general secretary.

              AIFF press release: The I-League Core Committee of All India Football Federation (AIFF) received the detailed Report dated 26th December 2012 of the Hon’ble Justice A. K. Ganguly relating to I-League Match No. 68 between Kingfisher East Bengal (KEB) and Mcdowell Mohun Bagan (MMB) played at Yuba Bharati Stadium, Salt Lake City Kolkata on 9 December 2012.

          Justice Ganguly in his report has concluded that the decision of MMB for not playing the match after the interval cannot be supported on the grounds of Force Majeure and accordingly MMB has breached Regulation 22 of the I-League Regulation 2012-2013.

             The I-League Core Committee endorsed the decision of Justice A.K. Ganguly that MMB was in breach of I-League regulations and therefore in terms of regulation 22(c) the mandatory and automatic impositions on MMB (i) of being considered to have withdrawn from the I-League Competition 2012-2013 (ii) to have all its matches in the I-League Competition 2012-2013 cancelled and considered null and void (all points, goals scored and goal against being taken away); (iii) being disqualified from taking part in the next two (2) editions of the I-League Competitions; (iv) to return to the I-League any financial stipends that had been paid to it by I-League throughout the Competition 2012-2013 or forfeit the right to the same, are hereby notified to have been imposed upon and effective with immediate effect.

               The I-League Core Committee also decided that in the subject matters of “quantification of the amount of compensation”, “extension of the suspension, if any” and “additional sanctions and fines, if any”, a meeting of the Committee be convened on 9th January, 2013 at New Delhi and M/s. United Mohun Bagan Football Team Private Limited be requested to place its view points in regard to the factors relating to “quantification of the amount of compensation”, “extension of the suspension, if any” and “additional sanctions and fines, if any”.

               Consequent to ‘Mcdowell Mohun Bagan’ being considered to have withdrawn from the I-League Competition 2012-2013 and having all its matches cancelled and considered null and void (all points, goals scored and goal against being taken away), the revised Fixture with re-structured Point Table will be published as soon as possible.

               Sunando Dhar, the CEO of I-League has been authorised to communicate the detailed decision of the Committee, as above, through letter to M/s. United Mohun Bagan Football Team Private Limited and forward a copy of the Report of the Hon’ble Justice A. K. Ganguly dated 26th December 2012.

The AIFF summoned Mohun Bagan in a meeting in Delhi on 9^th January 2013 regarding the suspension of involved players in this incident & about the financial penalty. So from here it can be expected that if Mohun Bagan officials appeal due to their suspension a way may come out in their fore.

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