Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan has been banned from Wankhede Stadium for five years for allegedly misbehaving with Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) officials after the game between Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians on Wednesday.
“The MCA managing committee is forced to ban Shah Rukh Khan from entering Wankhede Stadium for a period of five years. It was a unanimous decision,” MCA president Vilasrao Deshmukh said after the state association’s managing committee meeting on Friday.
The ban applies to all matches, both domestic and international.
The ban, however, is not final as IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla maintained that the BCCI would have the final say in the matter. Mr Shukla had on Thursday clarified to this newspaper that state bodies could only recommend a ban, but not enforce it. “The matter will be decided by the BCCI in its working committee meeting,” he said.
However, it’s not all bad news for the actor. The police on Friday claimed that it would not be registering a case against Khan.
The actor’s statement will also not be recorded in the incident as a non-cognisable case has been filed in the incident. “We have so many serious pending cases with us. The MCA and SRK brawl is not on our priority list,” a top police officer told this newspaper, adding, “Both MCA and Khan are doing whatever they want to do regarding the incident and we will not interfere in that. We have asked our officers to refrain from issuing media statements on the issue.”