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Ratnakar Shetty replies to showcause, says he never accused MCA officials of black marketing

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Nearly a week after he was asked to prove MCA’s possible involvement in black marketing of tickets to an India-Pakistan T20 match in Ahmedabad last year, Ratnakar Shetty has clarified his position to president Ravi Savant via a letter.

For the uninitiated, Shetty had claimed that the MCA had made an advance payment of Rs 1.5 lakh for the tickets to a third party and it was likely that they were resold in Ahmedabad.

In the letter, a copy of which is with dna, Shetty has mentioned that since the person who bought the tickets was not an MCA member, he could have sold them in the black market and paid the body later.

Shetty has insisted that a “letter signed by an office bearer was sent to Gujarat CA on December 26 to hand over 150 tickets booked for and paid by MCA to one Mr X.” He has reminded that he’d told the house that the “letters were issued by the joint secretaries of MCA”.

Shetty has asked whether the tickets were meant for MCA members and if the association’s funds were misused “for three weeks”.

He has said that the never made an allegations of black marketing against any office bearers. A part of the letter reads:  “...there is no question of providing evidence for what I did not allege. I would never belittle a position I myself held in this august body for close to two decades.”

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