After two decades, Gill signs off from IHF

KPS Gill’s nearly two-decade long association with Indian hockey ended on Monday with RK Shetty replacing him as the president of the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF).

In a special general body meeting attended by representatives of 50 state units, the IHF completed its election process and announced the new office bearers, which was stayed following the orders of Patna High Court in October.

Apart from Shetty, the newly-constituted body of IHF will have four vice-presidents - two men and two women (PS Gill of Punjab, Dinesh Reddy of Hyderabad, Jatinder Peters of Uttarakhand and Farrel Furtado Gracious of Goa), secretary-general, two secretaries, two joint secretaries, treasurer and five executive board members.

Ashok Mathur of Delhi has been elected as the secretary general while Suman Puri will don the hat of treasurer. “On October 3 we held our AGM and election but we could not declare the results as the meeting was adjourned after Patna High Court came out with a stay order following a case filed by Sh Ejaz Hussain.

“But the stay order was recently vacated after the court dismissed the case and fined Rs 20,000 to the petitioner for misleading the court,” IHF secretary general Mathur said.

“There was no contest and all the office bearers were elected unopposed. We will soon send the result to the government,” he added.