Kajaria to submit
supplementary report
Sandesh Prabhudesai
3 May 2001
K P Kajaria, the BCCI observer for the final
ODI played in Goa between India and Australia, is planning
to submit supplementary report on the match, following the
controversy over bogus tickets being sold.
After skipping interrogation thrice earlier,
Kajaria finally reported at the Margao police station here
last week in connection with the ongoing investigations into
the bogus ticket racket of around Rs one crore.
According to police inspector Umesh Gaonkar,
Kajaria had not mentioned anything in his report submitted
to the BCCI about the cricket fans not being allowed in the
stadium but chased away by resorting to canecharge on 6 April.
Though the report is primarily restricted
to certain points chalked out by the BCCI, Gaonkar says the
observers are free to mention other observations they make
during the match. But his report stated that the match went
on very smoothly without any problem.
Police wonder why Kajaria, who was staying
at a palacious five start resort in South Goa during his Goa
visit for the ODI, did not take cognisance of tickets numbering
double the capacity of the Fatorda stadium were sold to the
public.
Kajaria has told the police that even the
Goa Cricket Association did not mention it to him though the
local organising body had filed a police complaint in this
regard at the police station the previous days.
The police have in fact pointed out to Kajaria
that even the entry pass issued to him was actually a ticket
of Rs 750 but was changed to a complimentary pass. He has
now assured the police to submit a supplementary report to
the BCCI in this regard.
Meanwhile, Venkat Raut Desai and Joaquim
Peres, two assistants of the ticket contractor, surrendered
before the police today. Both of them were absconding all
these days.
The police have also challenged
the high court order granting conditional bail to Dayanand
Narvekar, the GCA president and former deputy chief minister,
in the Supreme Court. He is considered to be the key person
behind the scam.
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