Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 25,199

Constitution of Pakistan--- ----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. JUDGMENT YOUSUF ALI SAYEED, J.---The travails of the Petitioner are well known. Once a celebrated international cricketer who represented Pakistan with distinction at senior level in the test and ODI versions of the game1, he fell from grace as a central figure of spot-fixing scandal while contracted as an overseas player by the English County team Essex during the 2009. 2. The proceedings that ensued culminated in a life ban being imposed on him by a disciplinary panel of the England Cricket Board (the ECB), the body responsible for all aspects of the administration of the game in those countries, with that decision being assailed and litigated before an independent Appeal Panel and then before the High Court of Justice in England, reported as Kaneria v. England and Wales Cricket Board Limited [2014] EWHC 1348, up to the Court of Appeal. 3. The details of the affair stand fully documented through that judgment, as well as a decision rendered…

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