New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday quashed an FIR against former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, his son BJP MP and former BCCI president Anurag Thakur and others in a case related to alleged irregularities in granting land on lease for construction of the Dharamshala cricket stadium.

A bench of Justices A K Sikri, Ashok Bhushan and Ajay Rastogi said, "we allow the appeal. FIR registered is quashed".

Thakur, Dhumal and Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association had challenged the high court order refusing to quash the FIR registered during the then Vir Bhadra Singh government in the state.

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