Mumbai, Jan 7: The Bombay High Court has stayed elections to the apex council of the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) scheduled for Tuesday, questioning the way in which 400 new members, including relatives of incumbent president and NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar, were inducted. A bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad noted that the manner in which the entire process of admission of new members was carried out gave a “prima-facie impression that everything was done in a hot haste.” The order came on a bunch of petitions claiming that norms laid down by the Supreme Court for the elections were violated and there was favouritism in adding members to the voters’ list released on December 25, 2025. The new members include Rohit Pawar’s wife Kunti and his father-in-law Satish Magar, and NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule’s daughter Revati, the petition stated. The petitioners, which include former cricketer Kedar Jadhav, alleged that many of the new members had nothing to do with cricket, and they were added only so that some people could run the MCA as their private organisation. The petitions challenged the election process, terming it “illegal”, and claimed there was an “erroneous” inclusion of more than 400 voters in the draft voter list.Mumbai, Jan 7: The Bombay High Court has stayed elections to the apex council of the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) scheduled for Tuesday, questioning the way in which 400 new members, including relatives of incumbent president and NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar, were inducted. A bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad noted that the manner in which the entire process of admission of new members was carried out gave a “prima-facie impression that everything was done in a hot haste.” The order came on a bunch of petitions claiming that norms laid down by the Supreme Court for the elections were violated and there was favouritism in adding members to the voters’ list released on December 25, 2025. The new members include Rohit Pawar’s wife Kunti and his father-in-law Satish Magar, and NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule’s daughter Revati, the petition stated. The petitioners, which include former cricketer Kedar Jadhav, alleged that many of the new members had nothing to do with cricket, and they were added only so that some people could run the MCA as their private organisation. The petitions challenged the election process, terming it “illegal”, and claimed there was an “erroneous” inclusion of more than 400 voters in the draft voter list.