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Mohun Bagan football club faces ban after violence

AFP | By, New Delhi
Dec 10, 2012 02:21 PM IST

Popular Indian football club Mohun Bagan faced a three-year ban from the country's top league today for refusing to continue a match after crowd violence in Kolkata injured one of their players, reports said.

Popular football club Mohun Bagan faced a three-year ban from the country's top league on Monday for refusing to continue a match after crowd violence in Kolkata injured one of their players, reports said.

Mohun Bagan were a goal down away from home against bitter rivals East Bengal on Sunday when a stone hurled from one of the stands occupied by Bagan supporters – and apparently aimed at the referee – hit the club's midfielder Syed Rahim Nabi.

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The match resumed after a 13-minute stoppage towards the end of the first half, but Mohun Bagan refused to take the field after the interval as Nabi, an India international, was treated for a fractured right jaw.

The Kolkata-based Telegraph newspaper quoted police as saying that 45 people, including seven policemen, were injured as fans disrupted traffic and stoned cars outside the Salt Lake stadium.

Some 85,000 fans attended the match at the 100,000-capacity venue.

Sunando Dhar, chief executive of India's top division the I-League, said tournament rules stipulated that a team could be banned for three years for refusing to take the field.

"Having played until half-time, Mohun Bagan could be suspended from the current season and the following two seasons for not agreeing to continue the game," Dhar said.

The I-League committee is expected to decide Mohun Bagan's fate before their next match against Pailan Arrows on December 15, the Telegraph said.

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