India, Jan. 6 -- In a setback to Nationalist Congress Party leader and current chairman of the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA), Rohit Pawar, the Bombay high court has stayed elections for the cricketing body scheduled for Tuesday.

A bench of chief justice Shree Chandrashekhar and justice Gautam Ankhad directed MCA's electoral officer not to proceed with the election of the Maharashtra Cricket Association without the court's permission or till the next date of hearing.

"The petitioners would suffer irreparable loss if the elections are permitted to be conducted on the scheduled date and mere availability of alternate statutory remedy to them shall not suffice. This is not a rule of universal application that aggrieved parties shall...