The Mumbai Cricket Association on Sunday lifted the ban on Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan's entry into the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh was banned for five years from entering the MCA premises, including the Wankhede Stadium, by the Association's Managing Committee, headed by the late Vilasrao Deshmukh, on May 18, 2012 after he was involved in an altercation with the security staff and officials of the cricket body following the Indian Premier League match between KKR and Mumbai Indians.
The decision taken at a MCA meeting in Mumbai with vice-president Ashish Shelar being the proposer.
"Today, in the MCA meeting, it was decided that the ban imposed on IPL's Kolkata franchise owner Shah Rukh Khan should be lifted. With the prior approval of our president Sharad Pawar, it was proposed by me that the ban on him be lifted and the managing committee approved it unanimously. Therefore, the ban on his entry in the Wankhede Stadium has been revoked," Shelar said after the meeting.
Shah Rukh, however, denied he had misbehaved and maintained that he reacted only after children, including his kids, were "manhandled" by the security staff at the stadium.
"Action had been taken against him when required and we felt it was not good to take it any further. The whole managing committee consented on it. We felt it would not look good to bar somebody like this," Shelar said.
MCA sources said that Shah Rukh had called up Pawar to request that the ban be revoked.
Image: Shah Rukh Khan
Photograph: BCCI
