Corruption was not a difficulty in BCCI: Neeraj Kumar

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Corruption was not a difficulty in BCCI: Neeraj Kumar

The BCCI’s Committee of Administrators (CoA), headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai, turned a blind eye to a report about corruption on the grassroots stage in Indian cricket.

There had been additionally lapses within the sexual harassment probe towards former BCCI CEO Rahul Johri.

These are among the allegations made by Neeraj Kumar, former commissioner of Delhi Police and head of the Indian Cricket Board’s anti-corruption unit, in his new e-book ‘A Cop in Cricket’.

On the seriousness with which BCCI officers view the function of the anti-corruption unit, Kumar writes: “No one within the BCCI wished to know what we had been doing; No one wished to hearken to our grievances – about lack of assets. I might not be improper in saying that no one in BCCI wished something to do with us. The 2013 spot-fixing scandal and its aftermath had been, it appeared, all however forgotten; None of the consequential individuals on board felt the necessity to forestall its recurrence in future.”

When Kumar, in a presentation, dropped at the discover of the CoA about corruption in native leagues such because the Rajwada League in Kota, Rajasthan, which additionally drew the eye of anti-corruption watchdog Sportsradar Integrity Services, he stated he was dissatisfied. From.

“I spotted I had wasted my breath… By now, I used to be beginning to despair. I could not miss the writing on the wall. Corruption was not a difficulty in BCCI…’

Kumar contemplated quitting however determined to remain on to attempt to weed out corruption within the minor leagues.

A BCCI official was extra involved in regards to the ‘political fallout’ of the anti-corruption marketing campaign in Kota than appreciating the progress made by the ACU. One of the organizers of the league was the vice-president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association.

Kumar and his staff busted a deliberate try by bookies to decelerate the pitch by pouring water on it forward of the Indian Premier League match between Delhi Daredevils and Gujarat Lions in Kanpur.

In his e-book, Kumar additionally requires a sporting integrity legislation to focus on pitch siders – folks paid by bookies to offer match data from stadiums earlier than it’s televised so as to benefit from the time lag in broadcasts. . His interrogation revealed that he was paid Rs 1,000 by bookies for each incident (fall of wicket, fours, sixes, runs and so on.).

He advises that IPL groups ought to do due diligence earlier than outsourcing expertise hunts to non-public people who run money scams for choice and dupe gullible cricketers.

Kumar additionally alleges that former BCCI CEO Johri’s connections in excessive positions allowed him to return to work after a girl working on the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai leveled sexual harassment allegations towards him.

“The method by which Vinod Rai dealt with the allegations of sexual harassment towards the CEO will stay a thriller to most individuals who think about the officers of the nation’s premier civil service, ie the IAS… But why would he do that? There was hypothesis within the BCCI that Johri was near a strong Union minister who took a eager curiosity within the goings-on within the BCCI. Could this have been the explanation Rai protected him?” Kumar writes.

Johri didn’t reply to telephone calls or textual content messages from The Indian Express on Wednesday.

“A female employee of the BCCI called their partnership a ‘father-son’ relationship, where the father did not want to hear anything against his prodigal son, however serious the complaint was against him,” Kumar summarized.

Johri took cost once more in November 2018 after two members of the committee referred to as the allegations “false”, “baseless” and “fabricated”. The third member, ladies’s rights lawyer Veena Gowda, was the voice of dissent and suggested Johri to hunt “gender-sensitivity counselling/training”.

In one other allegation, Kumar referred to a criticism acquired from younger cricketers in Haryana’s Mahendragarh about an official demanding sexual favors in return for choice within the district staff.

He stated, ‘The worst factor was that when the inquiry report was despatched to the BCCI CEO and COA chief, they didn’t take any motion. I steadily reminded each of them about our findings, however every time they feigned full ignorance of the report,” writes Kumar.

Former BCCI treasurer and Haryana cricket outdated hand Anirudh Chowdhary informed The Indian Express that the ACU chief had different aims. “To me, these seem like conjectures and conjectures introduced in the intervening time to assist e-book gross sales and to realize a potential extension of his tenure with the BCCI at that time of time, which he additionally complains about Mr. Rai.

Chowdhary additionally stated that no such criticism was dropped at the discover of the Haryana Cricket Association.

“As far as I do know, the BCCI/COA didn’t convey any such factor to the Haryana Cricket Association and the one purpose it did so was that there was no substance within the allegations made. It was clear to all that Mr. Rai and I had variations and we discovered ourselves on reverse ends of a fractious litigation, which might be why the allegations had been made instantly on the BCCI.

Speaking to this paper, Kumar stated, “My expertise at BCCI was very totally different from my expertise as a police officer. During my time in BCCI, the directors had been very detached to the difficulty of corruption. I additionally wished to show some issues associated to cricket directors, together with what was occurring within the state cricket associations. After all, the sport belongs to the followers and they need to know the reality.


With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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