PANAJI: Special court, Panaji, granted anticipatory bail to the four accused – former Goa Cricket Association (GCA) president Dayanand Narvekar, GCA president Chetan Dessai, secretary Vinod Phadke and the then treasurer Akbar Mulla in the alleged Rs 1 crore scam in the GCA.
The Economic Offences Cell (EOC) of the Goa police last month has registered FIR against Narvekar, Dessai, Phadke and Mulla under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy for allegedly siphoning off Rs 1 crore of the GCA.
According to the police, the accused hatched a criminal conspiracy and deposited a cheque of Rs 1 crore in a fraudulent bank account and thereby misappropriated funds for TV subsidy, sent by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to the GCA, thus cheating the GCA to the tune of Rs 1 crore. According to the police, the incident had occurred in 2006-07 when the accused Narvekar was the president of the GCA, Chetan Dessai was the secretary, Vinod Phadke was the treasurer and Akbar Mulla was a member.
This is the second such case of alleged fraud in the GCA. It may be recalled that EOC had registered an FIR on June 2, 2016, against Dessai, Phadke and Mulla on various charges including forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy for allegedly misappropriating Rs 3.13 crore. The accused were arrested on June 15 and were released on bail on June 24.
