Don't send list of women's team for CWG till next hearing: HC to TTFI

The petition filed by Archana Kamath is slated for next hearing on June 22. The division bench of P S Dinesh Kumar and C M Poonacha in their order on Thursday said, "By interim direction, it is ordered that the selection list shall not be sent till the next date of hearing." Kamath was one of four players selected initially but her name was dropped in the subsequent list.

Senior advocate Udaya Holla appeared for her before the HC. Emergent notices were issued to TTFI, Sports Authority of India, and other members of the women's team -- Sreeja Akula, Reeth Rishya, Manika Batra, Diya Chitale and Swastika Ghosh.

On the request of the advocate, the court directed that the notices be sent by email to these respondents. Kamath is the latest table tennis player to move court after she was dropped from the Indian team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, further deepening the chaos surrounding the selection of the side for the July 28-August 8 quadrennial event to be held in Birmingham, England.

Kamath was initially included in the table tennis squad as an 'exception' as she did not meet the selection criteria laid down by TTFI, but was suddenly dropped by the Committee of Administrators (CoA) and Diya Chitale was brought in her place. Shocked by the sudden ouster from the squad, Kamath, the world number four player in women's doubles along with Manika Batra, had filed the writ petition in the Karnataka High Court against the Government of India, TTFI, Sports Authority of India and other members of the women's team.

The CoA had earlier announced an eight-member squad in Bengaluru with the women's team subject to clearance from Sports Authority of India. As per the original list, the selection committee had picked Batra,