The Supreme Court has admitted a petition by Suresh Kalmadi challenging the legality of the Delhi High Court order that had restrained the sacked CWG Organising Committee chief from going to London to attend the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.
On the plea filed by Kalmadi, a bench of justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad issued notice and sought the response of an advocate on whose PIL, he had been restrained from travelling to London to attend the event on July 27.
Kalmadi's lawyer said the appeal filed by the Congress leader and sports administrator in-principle contended that the order restraining him from travelling to London was an infringement of his fundamental right to travel under the Constitution and the fundamental right of a citizen cannot be curtailed on the basis of a purported public interest
litigation.
Further, Kalmadi's travel to London for the Olympics could not have been challenged in a public interest litigation as a trial court which was hearing a corruption case against him had already granted him the permission to travel.On July 13, a special CBI court had allowed Kalmadi to go to London from July 26 to August 13.