India, June 16 -- The Bombay High Court has upheld the de-affiliation of the Maharashtra State Wrestling Association (MSWA) led by NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar, from the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).

The order was delivered on Monday on a petition of the MSWA, whose de-affiliation goes back to June 30, 2022, when the WFI's national executive committee dissolved the MAWA's executive committee headed by Pawar for almost 40 years. The decision was based on complaints by district wrestling associations that the MSWA had misused funds and failure to conduct scheduled wrestling tournaments.

Following this, in July 2022, WFI wrote a letter, stating that the MSWA had been dissolved and that an ad-hoc body had been appointed for the daily ad...