Mumbai: The over three-year-old ban on Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on entering the Wankhede Stadium was lifted by the Mumbai Cricket Association, on Sunday.

The ban was imposed following a 2012 fracas involving the Kolkata Knight Riders principal owner and security personnel during an IPL match.

"Today, in the MCA meeting, it was decided that the ban imposed on Shah Rukh Khan should be lifted. With the prior approval of our president Sharad Pawar, it was proposed by me that the ban on him be lifted and the managing committee approved it unanimously. Therefore, the ban on his entry to the Wankhede Stadium has been revoked," MCA vice-president Ashish Shelar said after the meeting.

The superstar was banned from entering the MCA premises, including the Wankhede Stadium, for allegedly engaging in a scuffle with the officials of the association and the security staff on May 16, following the Knight Riders victory over the Mumbai Indians.

The ban order was issued two days later by the MCA's managing committee, then headed by Vilasrao Deshmukh, a former Maharashtra chief minister.

The actor had denied the charge of misbehaviour and claimed that he had reacted only after the children, who had accompanied him for the match, including his own kids, were "manhandled" by the security staff.

"Action had been taken against him when required and we felt that it was not good to take it any further. The whole managing committee consented on it. We felt it would not look good to bar somebody like this," Shelar said.

MCA sources said that Shah Rukh had called up Pawar and requested for revocation of the ban.

In a separate development, the MCA managing committee also decided not to contest the life ban imposed by the BCCI on Mumbai cricketer Ankeet Chavan in connection with IPL VI spot-fixing scandal, despite a Delhi court dropping criminal charges against him.

Chavan had requested the MCA to persuade the BCCI to lift the ban, but has himself not challenged the Board's decision so far.

"Ankeet Chavan, who has been cleared of MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) charges, requested us to convince BCCI to lift the ban on him. But the BCCI has already sent a mail to MCA clearing the factual position on this issue," Shelar said.

"The MCA has therefore decided that it would not challenge BCCI's action against Ankeet which was taken as per the disciplinary committee code and the anti-corruption code. So we have rejected his request," he said, adding that the court's ruling was only with regard to application of MCOCA against the all-rounder.

MCA's decision comes in the wake of utterances by BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur that the Board would not lift the ban on Chavan which had been imposed by its disciplinary panel for the player's breach of its anti-corruption code of conduct. (PTI)