The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Wednesday clarified before the Supreme Court that it had not written to the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) seeking approval for its amended constitution. The federation assured the bench that the Supreme Court-cleared draft constitution would be adopted in the upcoming general body meeting.

The clarification came a day after the court expressed concern over a news report claiming that AIFF had reached out to FIFA regarding its draft constitution.

Appearing for the AIFF, senior advocate Ranjit Kumar told a bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and A.S. Chandurkar that the federation “denies the report” and that “everything, according to the judgment of this court, will happen.” He added that while there may have been communic

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