Summons to Lalit Modi over country's name on cricket pitch

The Allahabad High Court Bench here today summoned Lalit Modi, the chairman of Indian Premier League (IPL) and sponsor DLF Company in connection with a petition against writing of country's name on cricket pitch.
    
A division bench comprising Acting chief justice Amitava Lala and justice Anil Kumar passed the order on a writ petition, seeking direction to restrain the DLF company from using the name of the country 'India' in its official logo and also on the pitch.
    
The petition filed by local organisation 'We the People' alleged that writing 'India' on pitches was against national honour.
    
Earlier, the court had directed the Union government's counsel to seek instructions in this regard. Today, it was contended on behalf of the Union government that such a permission was not granted to the respondent DLF company.
    
The court intervention came on the basis of the submission by the Centre.    

The summons is issued for April 21.