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| Variation pointed out in original, reconstructed record | | JKCA Scam | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 26: In the multi-crore JKCA scam, a variation has been noticed in the original and reconstructed records. A serving senior police officer ostensibly took advantage of September 2014 floods and allegedly forged the records to make a new set of balance sheet and audit reports pertaining to the multi-crore J&K Cricket Association scam to appease his political masters, especially National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah, who is also one of the accused in the case. Sources told Early Times that the police officer is likely to feel the heat for allegedly hatching a criminal conspiracy to implicate innocent persons in the multi-crore JKCA scam by forging the record.
Pertinently, police had registered a case against the office bearers of the J&K Cricket Association, including Farooq Abdullah, after a PIL was filed in the court which had then directed SP East Srinagar to investigate the case. Sources said police had submitted a status report in the high court, allegedly stating therein that the September floods had damaged the records which were seized during the raid and were being dried and reconstructed at Police Station, Kothibagh.
In this regard, the high court division bench of Justice M H Attar and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey had observed that the allegations made in the PIL were of serious nature. Hence reconstruction of records damaged in the floods had become inevitable. “The agency is directed to reconstruct the record within shortest possible time and proceed to investigate the case,” the court had directed.
However, it has now come to fore that police are likely to register a criminal case against a senior police officer for allegedly forging and tampering with official records on the pretext of “reconstructing the records.”
Police sources believe that this is being done in order to falsely implicate some innocent persons in the multi-crore J&K Cricket Association scam unearthed in 2012.
According to highly-placed sources, Inspector General of Police Kashmir zone has taken a strong note of reports pertaining to records being allegedly forged by a police officer.
Sources said the matter of forging the records had come to the fore recently. This was being done in an attempt to the dilute the case and favour the accused in the scam.
Sources said the matter of tampering with the records was brought to the notice of senior police and civil officers recently. The administration has reportedly taken a serious note of the criminal act of the police officer.
According to sources, the administration has decided to wait before initiating action, as the High Court has listed the case for hearing on June 2.
Sources said the forgery in the records could be verified through a forensic science laboratory.
Visible Errors
The errors in the reconstructed audit reports are quite visible. Both the original and the forged reports are in possession of Early Times. The contradictions can be pointed out even on a cursory look. In its report filed before the High Court, the police had stated that the records including the copies of balance sheets of JKCA particularly for the years 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 which were seized during the initial investigation were found at variance with respect to the financial statements provided by the High Court.
Interestingly, during last two years of investigation, police have never pointed out any such variance. Sources said that this was actually an attempt to cover up the tempering done with the records by the police.
Sources alleged that the latest set of financial statements has been prepared by the police in connivance with the real accused and the signatures have been put on the papers.
The original financial statements and the audit reports are authenticated by the signatures of the office bearers while as the latest set of the statements prepared by the police does not carry the signatures of authorized signatories.
Not only this, the police in its report is alleged to have made false entries in the expenditure in an attempt to minimize the amount of embezzlement.
However, there too, the police contradicts its own statement.
It merits a mention that the JKCA scam surfaced in March 2012 after some of the working committee members of the association brought in details about the irregularities into the knowledge of the treasurer of the association.
The then chairman and treasurer of JKCA who reported the scam has been now implicated by the police. The outstanding amount to the tune of Rs 3.80 crore shown against the office bearers is actually nowhere reflected in the audit reports of the JKCA. The report has also shown an amount of Rs 4.06 crore outstanding against four office bearers as loan, which is non-existent in the original papers ratified by the working committee from time to time and having been signed by its president, Dr. Farooq Abdullah.
The PIL was filed by the two persons, Majid Yaqoob Dar and Nissar Ahmad Khan. Dar was a Ranji Trophy player, which Khan was a club-level player. They had alleged JKCA members had embezzled Rs 40 crore.
They had also sought investigation into FIR NO.27/2012 registered at Police Station Ram Munshi Bagh Srinagar for bringing the guilty to book, and to remove those office bearers of JKCA who allegedly got themselves elected in May 2014 fraudulently and dishonestly.
The respondents in the PIL include BCCI through its Secretary, Dr Farooq Abdullah (President JKCA), Chief Secretary of the State, Director General of Police, SSP Srinagar, Ehsan Mirza, Saleem Khan and Moti Lal Nehru. |
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