Kochi: The Kerala High Court has dismissed a PIL which claimed that the BCCI's professional T20 cricket league cannot use the name Indian Premier League.

The petitioner, Ashique Karoth, who claimed to be a social worker, contended that the use of the name Indian Premier League by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) was "illegal".

A bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V M observed that the petitioner only recently realised that the IPL was not an official cricket tournament of the country, even though it has been going on for several years.

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"We find no merit in the substance of the said argument, and hence, we do not feel that it would be proper to keep this writ petition as a public interest litigation (PIL)," the bench said. (PTI)