Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 5: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has blocked over Rs 60 crore funding to Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) because no accounts have been submitted to the BCCI for the past many years by it. The BCCI is also reportedly miffed with the JKCA as no headway has been made in the Rs 113 crore JKCA scam.
“BCCI used to provide over 25-crore annually to the JKCA. Every year, there would be an increment of couple of crores to cover for inflation. The money is given by BCCI to all State associations for building quality infrastructure to support the game and develop the local talent”, said
BJP State Spokesperson Advocate Lalit Kumar Moza, while interacting with media persons here today.
Moza said that BCCI stopped the funds in the backdrop of a major scam that was unearthed in JKCA last year. It came in open that the JKCA has failed to give audit to BCCI about the spending of funds over these years.
He alleged that the JKCA has till date not submitted audited accounts to BCCI about the spending of funds over these years. Despite the fact that former Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah’s name also cropped up, no investigation has been carried so far.
He said that in this scam two senior officials of the Association were sacked for “swindling” crores of rupees of JKCA, which were meant for development of cricket in the state. Both these senior officials were considered close confidantes of JKCA President and former Union Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah, he added.
JKCA, under Dr Abdullah, also distributed money as loans to 50 individuals, mostly its own members and some companies. This includes Rs. 58.91 lakh to Treasurer Ashutosh Sharma, Rs 13.3 lakh to top bureaucrat Mehbob Iqbal (currently contesting Assembly elections from a PDP ticket) and Rs 50 lakh to current treasurer Manzoor Wazir and others.
He alleged that the office-bearers also allowed defaulters to retain the amount for years together, and even after they left the association. Hotelier Manzoor Gaznafar and Mirza, both former treasurers, and two other office-bearers were given loans worth Rs 4.05 crore, with acknowledgements off the records.
Moza demanded that the curtain should be raised from the truth and accused should be punished according to the law.
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