Court asks Sports Officer Satpal to produce sealed register on June 29

On Monday, June 22, a strange message popped out of Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA).

The message sent on behalf of the current sports working committee on whatsapp read, “Pappu raktchaap se peedit ho gaya hai. Uske swasthya ki jaankari laao. Pappu raktchaap se peedit ho gaye hain. Hum unke jaldi swasth hone ki prathna karte hain.” (Pappu is down with blood pressure. Get information about his health. Pappu is down with blood pressure. We pray for his well being.”

Now, Pappu here doesn’t refer to Rahul Gandhi nor to Salman Khan. It refers to Mr CK Khanna, the vice-president of the DDCA and the vice-president of BCCI.

Such insinuations, gross and sarcastic remarks are not new in the DDCA. There have been worse.

Mr Khanna was supposed to appear in the court in a case that Mr Vinod Tihara & Co, of the current sports working committee, had filed. The allegation was that Mr Khanna had put in officials for the Sports Working Committee elections on back date over a contentious resolution to hold elections. He is facing contempt of court for having tampered with the documents.

The current committee says that Mr Khanna got it done in desperation a few days back to ensure that the court doesn’t stop sports committee elections before August 4 whereas Mr Khanna says that things have been done methodically, as per the rules and systematically. He has even told Delhi Cricket that the current committee is trying to stop the elections as they know they’ll lose.

Whatever be the case, Mr Khanna couldn’t make it to the court due to blood pressure and the court has now asked Mr Satpal, the sports officer at DDCA to seal the register which has the details, and produce it before the court on June 29 when the court also hears the case of Mr Tihara’s allegations about ‘resolutions since December, 2014 being illegal’ including one that sent Mr Khanna to the BCCI. Mr Khanna has also been asked to provide details on June 29. The Khanna faction says that Mr Tihara and Mr Sunil Dev are desperate to remove Mr Khanna from the post of BCCI vice-presidency and even want Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia to replace him from Central Zone, from where he got elected.

Mr Khanna had shocked the entire cricketing fraternity after he defeated the Madhya Pradesh strongman Mr Scindia in his own backyard during the BCCI elections. The post of vice-presidency from North Zone had gone to Mr ML Nehru of the Jammu and Kashmir.