International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued a suspension threat to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) for its failure to hold elections on time, IOA on Saturday has dubbed the world body’s warning as “a little out of line” while reminding it that the courts in India — a country which has “one of the finest and most independent judicial system anywhere in the world” — are seized of the matter. While the IOC and Olympic Council of Asia’s (OCA) letter was jointly addressed to the IOA’s Executive Council (EC), the national Olympic committee’s (NOC) acting president, Anil Khanna, took it upon himself to reply to the governing bodies’ “premature warning of suspension” in a communication.