Court reserves order on Sachin Tendulkar's Bharat Ratna

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court yesterday reserved its order on a PIL challenging the award of Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.

The petition filed by IPS official Amitabh Thakur and social activist Nutan Thakur contended that theu00a0award had no provisions or guidelines to select
people.u00a0The petitioner’s counsel Asok Pande argued that cricket was less of a sport and more a ‘tamasha’ or fun.

Sachin Tendulkar

Pande said there were no guidelines to select Bharat Ratna winners as against the guidelines governing Padma awards.u00a0Additional Solicitor General KC Kaushik presented a list of Bharat Ratna awardees so far.

The bench of Justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and DK Upadhyaya reserved the ruling after listening to both the parties. The date of judgement would be announced later.u00a0The petitioners prayed for a larger committee for these awards to bestow Bharat Ratna to the “truly deserving”.u00a0

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