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| Can JKCA management escape moral responsibility? | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 11: The multi-crore scam in Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) is becoming murkier with each passing day. While the JKCA has lodged an FIR into the multi-crore scam, disclosures by involved JKCA office bearers could become highly embarrassing for the top management of the association.
Whether the real culprits are identified sooner or later, the fact remains that the top management of JKCA which includes Dr. Farooq Abdullah cannot escape the moral responsibility for what has happened in the association.
Mohammad Aslam Goni, the man who formally lodged the FIR after reports about bogus accounts being opened in the name of JKCA surfaced up told the media the JKCA patron union minister Dr. Farooq Abdullah does not handle or operate bank accounts of the association. Goni also said two office bearers of the association, namely Ehsan Mirza and Saleem Khan had accepted misappropriation of funds and that Mirza had also confirmed he would deposit Rs. 1.9 crores back into the JKCA account very soon.
The bogus accounts opened in the name of the JKCA were operated from J&K Bank's Air Cargo and Khanyar branches in the city. Funds received from the BCCI were deposited in these accounts and then withdrawn for purposes not even remotely connected with the development of the cricket infra structure in the state nor for furthering the careers of the local players or the betterment of the JKCA. Cheques issued and honoured in these accounts have been received by carpet dealers, unknown beneficiaries and even persons with unverified identities.
How did the J&K Bank branches honour cheques for huge amounts by allowing cash withdrawals against explicit and unambiguous directives of the RBI? J&K Bank chairman has said a team has been set up which is presently looking into the whole affair. Anybody who even remotely knows banking regulations and practices would confirm that cheques in excess of Rs. 50,000 cannot be paid in cash by any bank in the country. How did the concerned bank branches favour the drawees with cash payments in excess of Rs. 50, 000? So far, as per reports, the JKCA scam has grown to Rs. 24 crores and the police and the management are still counting the exact extent of the multi-crore scam.
In a significant development, Ehsan Mirza has denied that he ever agreed to deposit Rs. 1.9 crores back into the JKCA account. Mirza also confirmed that he had nothing to do with the financial scam in JKCA and that he had resigned as an office bearer of JKCA only on moral grounds. Saleem Khan has also afforded the same explanation.
It is only after almost one year after the JKCA scam came to surface that the management has been forced to lodge an FIR into the entire scam.
The police have raided the residences of Ehsan Mirza and Saleem Khan in Nigeen and Chanapora residential localities of the city and also the Sonawar offices of the JKCA. Informed sources said the raiding police parties have not been able to lay their hands on anything that could throw further light on the mutli-crore scam.
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