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BCB election scandal

Probe body formed

SPORTS REPORTER
The Sports Ministry’ Thursday named a three-member committee headed by Brig Gen Ahsan Habib, director general of BKSP. to probe into the reported allegations of bribery and other irregu larities during the Bangladesh (Ticket Board elections held on February 25.
the committee will be granted I5 working days to investigate । eports of bribery that appeared in the print media over the last lew lays.
Il was reported tn all the leading dailies, quoting contesting councillors. lit it the /afar Imam led Forum of the district and divisional organisers, received oxer Taka ten lakh in the form of dona lion during the election Eh r poM of It) directors ’ from ihe I Jhaka-bascd clubs.
Ataur Rahman a deputy sec-
retary of the Ministry of\oulli and Spoils, and Akhlrt Hamid khan, director ol the Sports Diiectoi ate. make up the committee which is expected lo meet lor ihe first time mi Sunday.
Speaking horn Savar-based BKSP, Brig Gen Habib said that he would try to contact the two oilier members by Saturday so (hat they sit together on Sunday.
"We will try to finish our investigation within (he stipulated time period. But. fust of all, I have to go through the terms and conditions of the election procedure belote gelling down to business." he said.
Meanwhile, people from dif ferent spheres, including some former national cricketers, while condemning the uncommon practice of the so-called Forum manipulation and appealed to the government to appoint a Justice as the chairman of the probe.
“ \ Justice should be appointed to lead any coiruption scandal or manipulation in an event like this. BeGdcs. ilure were reports ol political intervemion. Would the
DG. BKSP, be able lo probe the mailer freely and fairly, said one councillor, preferring anony mity.
“We see a lot of inquiries in these days. Can you mention one single example where Hue cul puts were taken into task?" he asked.
But a director of ihe National Sports Council ( NSC ) rejected the idea of heading a probe body with a justice claiming that the allegation appeared on the media was purely speculative.
But while he was told about examples of justices being appointed in South Africa. India and Pakistan to head commissions to investigate irregularities in cricketing affairs, the NSC official, opting not to be named, said the re ports of irregularities were not that grave compared lo those of other countries.
“Match-fixing offences are as same as sedition and that is why their respective governments appointed justices to head those commissions," he said.