The Formula 1 race will go ahead without any legal hurdle as the petition in the Supreme Court seeking a stay of the mega event did not come up for hearing today.
The plea, which was likely to be taken up today, was not listed in the mentioning list for urgent hearing.
A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam, before whom the matter was mentioned yesterday, had said it would hear the matter tomorrow.
The petition has been filed by one Amit Kumar seeking the court's direction to stay the event, to be held on Saturday in Greater Noida, on the ground that the organiser has not paid the entire entertainment tax amount to Uttar Pradesh government for first Formula 1 race held in 2011.
The Akhilesh Yadav government had recently approached the apex court seeking its permission to withdraw the June 27, 2011 decision of the then UP government headed by Mayawati granting exemption to Jaypee Group from entertainment tax.
It sought the company be directed to pay the entire amount of entertainment tax due to it for the 2011 formula 1 race.
Kumar had in 2011 also filed a petition in the apex court challenging exemption of entertainment tax given by the then BSP government in UP for the event and the apex court had in its interim order on October 21, 2011, directed the Jaypee Group to deposit 25 per cent of sale proceeds from tickets in a separate account which would not be operated without its permission.
India's first Formula 1 event was held in Greater Noida, near the national capital, on October 30, 2011.
