The Delhi High Court today refused to vacate a stay on the election for office bearers of the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) that was to be held on 1st of September.

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar issued a notice to Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, AKFI and AC Thangavel, a former Kabaddi player from Tamil Nadu, seeking their response on an appeal by the temporary President and Vice President of the federation against the order of a single judge.

The bench also issued notice on the application to stay the single judge's order and said the court was not going to interfere with it at this stage.

The single-judge bench had on 27th August, stayed the elections of AKFI on Thangavel's petition challenging the AKFI's three orders of 7, 16 and 17th of August by which polls were notified by the administrator, electoral roll published and the objections raised by him dismissed without assigning any reasons.