Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld the State government’s decision to deny the 2023 Vikram Award (Adventure Sports Category) to mountaineer Madhusudan Patidar, ruling that he was ineligible because his Mount Everest summit in 2017 fell outside the mandatory five-year achievement window prescribed under the award rules.

Justice Pranay Verma delivered the judgment on Monday, dismissing Patidar’s writ petition in which he had challenged the selection of another mountaineer, Bhawna Dehariya, for the prestigious award and sought its conferment on himself. Read Also Indore News: HC Upholds Injunction Restraining Woman From Claiming Marital Status With...

Patidar argued that he was the senior-most climber and had scaled Everest earlier than

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