new delhi even as controversy rages over alleged irregularities in elections to various national sports bodies the delhi high court today asked all india football federation to follow national sports development code in its dec 20 polls and asked the centre to act in case of violationthe sports federation is required to follow the national sports development code 2011 a bench of chief justice d murugesan and justice rajiv sahai endlaw saidthe court also said the irregularities if any in the election processes be brought to the notice of the ministry of youth affairs and sports which in turn may take the requisite stepsthe bench which posted the matter for hearing on january 14 was hearing an application plea filed by rahul mehra a lawyer alleging that the sports code has not been followedelectoral college could not be formed published till as late as december 13 2012 the entire electoral process as regards filing of nominations scrutiny thereof withdrawals and final list of candidates of respondent aiff already stood completed even before its electoral college could be formed mehra said in his pleait is established beyond any doubt that the elections to the various posts of aiff in its soon to be held agm on december 20 2012 are being held contrary to all well established principles of a free fair and transparent electoral process in general and the model election guidelines as prescribed in the sports code in particular it allegedbesides rendering a person older than 70 years ineligible to run the poll for a sports body office the sports code also stipulates that no person elected to any office consecutively for three terms with each term being of four years would be eligible to run the pollthe ministry had recently derecognised the archery association of india aai and suspended the indian amateur boxing federation iabf for not following the national sports code in the elections to the bodies