Date:14/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/14/stories/2008021457332200.htm

Sport - Cricket

TDCA elections: Court admits plea

Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Thiruvananthapuram First Class Magistrate Court-III has admitted a plea citing that forgery had taken place in the Thiruvananthapuram District Cricket Association elections held here on May 25 last year.

Admitting the case under provisions of the Indian Penal Code relating to forgery on Wednesday, the court has directed all five accused to appear before the court on April 26.

The accused included in the case are K.K. Sreehari (TDCA representative to the Thiruvananthapuram District Sports Council), N. Bijumon, Padmakumar, Sairash Masood and R. Anil Kumar (TDCA representative to the Kerala Cricket Association). The case was filed by S.B. Salim Kumar, who had unsuccessfully contested to the post of TDCA vice-president in the election, in which the former BCCI secretary, S.K. Nair, had also surprisingly failed to get re-elected as TDCA representative to the KCA. Mr. Nair was thus forced to resign as the KCA president, a day after the TDCA elections.

Mr. Salim Kumar and K. Anil Kumar, another candidate for the post of vice-president, in a complaint to the KCA a few months ago, had alleged that a section of the current TDCA office-bearers had used forged documents in the name of several clubs to get themselves elected.