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BCCI may make internal audit report public

DNA had reported how audit firm Deloitte last year found massive irregularities while scanning the books of various state associations.

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The committee of administrators (COA), appointed by Supreme Court to run cricket in India, is said to have decided to reveal the massive financial bungling in many state cricket associations by making the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) internal audit report public in the coming days.

Having been restrained by the complex "confidentiality clause" between BCCI and states, the COA's step is seen as decisive to make all states explain their positions before going public with the report. This has come two days after DNA reported how COA has decided to take action against corrupt states.

"This is necessary under the confidentiality clause for us to give state associations a chance to make their position clear. Failing which, the responsibility lies with them and they will lose right to question us of making the internal audit report public," said a source in the BCCI.

This was done a day after BCCI snatched the "full membership" from powerful associations like Mumbai, Vidarbha, Saurashtra and Baroda and accorded the same to North-Eastern states — Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim — in accordance with the SC orders of July 18, 2016 accepting the Justice Lodha panel recommendations in toto.

DNA had reported how audit firm Deloitte last year found massive irregularities while scanning the books of various state associations. The auditors were said to be surprised by the manner in which some units maintain their accounts.

Since the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal, the BCCI has been under pressure to monitor the money that goes to state units. And when Shashank Manohar took over as BCCI president in 2015, he immediately announced the scanning of all accounts of BCCI and state units.

According to a former board official, states such as Kerala, J&K, Jharkhand, Hyderabad, Odisha and Haryana were a few, which came up for special mention of irregularities by the audit report.

Instances like how Hyderabad members and their wives were given gold coins and jewellery or how Goa association bought 18 cars or Kerala association bought mangrove land worth over Rs 30 crore from the BCCI funds were unearthed.

Rohtagi in a spot

On a day when SC deferred hearing the BCCI matter due to certain unavoidable reasons, attorney general Mukul Rohtagi questioned the inclusion of north-eastern states.

Appearing on behalf of three government associations — Railways, Universities and Services — whose voting rights have been taken away in accordance with SC orders, Rohtagi questioned the rationale behind including "tiny north-eastern states" with full voting rights in the BCCI.

Rohtagi's observation did raise few eyebrows within the BCCI as he is supposed to be the custodian of law for all the Indian states equally and not just for the few chosen ones.

"Are these North-Eastern states not part of India?" asked a representative of Manipur Cricket Association present during the hearing on Monday.

"Isn't it like telling us that Team India doesn't want any player from our state. AG's comments are a direct insult to us. Our boys have equal rights like Mumbai or Delhi to be a part of national cricket team. The govt of India should come clear on this and ask AG to mend his ways," added the official from Manipur.

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