New Delhi: Refuting the corruption allegations, the Delhi & District Cricket Association on Wednesday said it will file a defamation case against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and suspended Bhartiya Janta Party MP Kirti Azad and other top AAP functionaries.
The Delhi cricket body termed the allegations as “wild and baseless” and said such charges have tarnished the image of the organisation. DDCA acting president Chetan Chauhan said here on the day, “There have been a lot of false charges levelled against the state cricket body and thus we are forced to take legal recourse against those spreading such misinformation.
“Wherever there is scope, we will file defamation cases,” he said. Treasurer Ravinder Manchanda said that the agencies — the CBI, the Intelligence Bureau and the Delhi Police — are already probing the cases against the DDCA and there was no need for a fresh inquiry to be initiated by the AAP government.
On the day. the AAP alleged that Arun Jaitley, in his capacity as the DDCA president in 2011, had pressurised the then police commissioner to “close” an investigation involving a cricket club of a bank.
Senior AAP leader Ashutosh released two letters, purportedly written by Jaitley, to former Delhi Police commissioner B.K. Gupta and then special commissioner Ranjit Narayan which requested them to “fairly” deal with the matter and “close” the case since “DDCA has done no wrong”.
The party also renewed its demand for Jaitley’s resignation in the wake of the “fresh disclosures”. The letter to Gupta is dated October 27, 2011 while the one written to Narayan is dated May 5, 2012.
The DDCA countered the allegations, saying, “He (Jaitley) has done nothing wrong. He has all the rights to defend his association.” DDCA sports secretary Sunil Dev elaborated on the matter, saying: “The bank granted the permission in November 2005 but had made it clear that the team should not have non-employees and it would be treated as a private club. “The case was given to the crime branch and the DDCA also went through the inquiry. Nothing was found in it. So, all these allegations are baseless,” he said.
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