Singh was treasurer and Sharma was secretary of the Lalu Prasad Yadav-led BCA when the money was granted by BCCI for development of cricket.
Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav's coach and Bihar Cricket Association's (BCA) treasurer Ram Kumar has lodged a FIR against BCA secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad Singh and former secretary Ajay Narayan Sharma for siphoning off Rs 50 lakh grant given by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2009.
The case has been registered at the Patna's secretariat police station (case No. 30/2017) on March 10 under the IPC sections 406/420/379/34.
At that time, Singh was treasurer and Sharma was secretary of the Lalu Prasad Yadav-led BCA when the money was granted by BCCI for development of cricket.
Singh's FIR was lodged days before a letter by BCCI CEO reached the BCA office on March 18 asking it to furnish details by March 28 on how much of the 2009 grant was spent. Johri was acting upon Deloitte's audit report that hinted at large scale fraud in Bihar.
Interestingly, it was during the IPL spot-fixing case hearing in Supreme Court that former BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Sanjay Patel had, on different occasions (2014 & 2016), submitted before the Court about how Lalu Prasad Yadav group-led BCA failed to submit the accounts of Rs 50 lakh. The Court was further told that BCA has already been suspended in 2010.
However, the same BCA was again recognised an as associate member, without calling any affiliation committee meeting of BCCI – which has Anshuman Gaekwad, Thakur and Prakash Dixit – in 2016. This was a clear violation of Justice Lodha panel, which had already given full membership to Bihar and other Indian states.
"Deloitte conducted an audit of Bihar last year and found that equipment worth Rs 1.5 crore, given by BCCI for the stadium in Patna, were found missing and no proper explanation was given regarding this," a BCCI official told DNA on Saturday.
Add to this, there is Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB) secretary Aditya Verma who has been instrumental in bringing down the old corrupt system of BCCI with his Public Interest Litigation filed after the IPL spot-fixing case in 2013. Almost every BCCI boss, right from Jagmohan Dalmiya to Shashank Manohar to Thakur, has ensured that Verma is kept out of cricket affairs.
CAB has also filed fresh representation with the new Committee of Administrators (COA), but the Vinod Rai-led team is yet to take a call on who would be the legitimate representative of Bihar in the BCCI.
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