Delhi HC withholds injunction plea by Sporty Solutionz

This leaves the path clear for the Indian Badminton League to return for its second season in 2016 after a break of almost three years.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday withheld the injunction requested by Sporty Solutionz on November 3. The Badminton Association of India (BAI) now has all authority to conduct the Indian Badminton League without having any obstruction from any quarter, including Sporty Solutionz.
 
The Delhi High Court declined to grant any injunction order, as prayed for by Sporty Solutionz, and the adjourned the case for 10th December 2015.
 
In a statement to the press, BAI legal counsel Sunil Kumar Mittal explained that Sporty Solutionz was associated with organising the first edition of the IBL in 2013. The agreement was terminated in April this year through a legal notice by the BAI citing various breaches which led to the IBL not being held in 2014 and 2015. Sporty Solutionz failed to reply to this legal notice, but did file an injunction petition with the High Court of Delhi, which was quashed in May. Following this, the sports events organisation company filed another injunction petition on November 3.

BAI President & IBL Chairman Akhilesh Das Gupta said: “We are content with the latest development in our legal matter with Sporty Solutionz. The Honourable High Court has decided to withhold the injunction requested by Sporty Solutionz on the organization of the second season of the Indian Badminton League. This means we are free to organise the league as originally envisioned and are sparing no effort to make sure it goes ahead as planned. The BAI is the government-recognized federation for Badminton in India and Badminton is solely BAI’s intellectual property. We have full faith in the Indian judicial system and are confident the matter will be settled in our favour.”

 
In these circumstances, BAI is free to proceed further with its plan to organise IBL 2 in the next year.