Mumbai: The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on Sunday decided to lift the nearly three-year-old entry ban on Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan. The actor took to micro-blogging site Twitter to thank MCA for ‘your graciousness.’
The 49-year-old posted on Twitter: “My gentle father-in-law made me realise how little it matters who was right or who was wrong. What matters is grace. Thanks MCA for your graciousness."
My gentle father in law made me realise how lil it matters who was rite or who was wrong. Wot matters is grace. Thnx MCA for ur graciousness
— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) August 3, 2015SRK, who co-owns Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), was banned for five years from entering MCA premises, including the Wankhede Stadium, by the Association's Managing Committee, headed by the late Vilasrao Deshmukh, on May 18, 2012 after he was involved in an altercation with the security staff and officials of the cricket body following Kolkata Knight Riders' victory over Mumbai Indians two nights earlier.
MCA officials had also lodged a complaint against him at the Marine Drive police station saying that he was drunk and abused the officials.
Khan, however, denied he had misbehaved and maintained that he reacted only after children, including his kids, were "manhandled" by the security staff at the stadium.
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The MCA in 2014 had offered to temporarily lift the ban on the actor in what was a failed attempt at bringing back the IPL final from Bengaluru to Mumbai. That offer, however, was just for the final match.
