The police on Sunday in Guwahati raided two premises of the Assam Cricket Association (ACA) and seized over a dozen trunks full of documents relating to its financial transaction and accounts of the past 10 years following an order of the Guwahati High Court.
“We have carried out search in two offices of the Assam Cricket Association, one at Nehru Stadium at Ulubari and the other at the Cricket Stadium at Barshapara and seized heaps of documents as per orders of the hon’ble Guwahati High Court,” Mukesh Agarwal, Commissioner of Police, Guwahati said.
The search and seizure were carried out following orders issued by a division bench of the Guwahati High Court comprising Justice T Vaiphei and Justice PK Saikia on a PIL filed by Sahajananda Ojha, a former secretary of the ACA.
Ojha in his PIL had alleged massive financial irregularities in the ACA, as also the association’s reported move to shift ownership of a cricket stadium recently constructed with funds from the government and BCCI to a trust.
Ojha, who is also a former deputy manager of the Indian cricket team, also alleged that the present set of ACA office-bearers had refrained from holding its annual general meeting since 2009 and thereby flouting all norms of accounts and finances including the provision of its own constitution.
Meanwhile, a group of former Ranji cricket players of Assam under the Association of Cricketers for Assam, have demanded arrest of ACA secretary Bikas Barua for the latter’s alleged misappropriation of funds that the association had received from the BCCI and the state government.
Barua on his part however refuted the allegations and said that he was open to inquiry. “I welcome the orders of the hon’ble Guwahati High Court and I have been cooperating with the police,” he said.
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