The Anti-Corruption Bureau in Rajasthan has decided to register a preliminary enquiry (PE) against Union Minister and Rajasthan Cricket Academy (RCA) chairman C P Joshi for alleged financial irregularities by the Academy.
The PE will be registered in compliance with a local court's directive and the decision was taken after examining the court's order by our legal cell, IG ACB Smita Srivastava said today.
On April 10, a local ACB court, while hearing a complaint by a one Prem Narayan, had directed the ACB to probe allegations against Joshi and others.
The complainant had alleged illegality in allotment of work contract to a private firm during IPL season-5, wherein a payment of Rs 2.30 crore was said to have been made fraudulently by the RCA.
The contract was given for maintenance, housekeeping, catering, field security, assistance in all ground activities, flood lights, personnel for ground, pitches, infrastructures, CCTV equipment and others.
Besides Joshi, the complainant has made allegatons against RCA vice president Vivek Vyas, secretary K K Sharma, RCA office superintendent Manish Joshi and owner of the firm Satish Gopalan.
When asked, Joshi, who is the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways told PTI that he was not aware of the development and refused to comment on the matter.
