Police file chargesheet against GCA chief, eight others

The Goa police on Thursday filed a chargesheet against the Goa Cricket Association (GCA) president, Dayanand Narvekar and eight others in the court in connection with the `fake' ticket scam under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including criminal conspiracy, police sources said.

The names of GCA secretary Vinod Phadke, former treasurer Rama Shankardas, ticket contractor Chinmay Fallari and his brother Devdutt Fallari, also figure in the chargesheet filed in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Margao, they said.

Eknath Naik, brother-in-law of GCA president, Gangaram Bishe, Venkatesh Desai and Joaquim Pires were the other four charged under different sections of the IPC, including printing and sale of fake tickets, criminal conspiracy and cheating the public, police sources said, adding, the different IPC sections slapped against them were 461, 465, 468, 471, 201 and 120 (b).

About 200 persons, including those chargesheeted in the case had been interrogated since the police launched investigations about three months back into allegations of printing and sale of fake tickets for the India-Australia One Day International on April 6 last in Goa. The BCCI executive secretary Sharad Diwadkar had also appeared before the investigating team, police added.

This was the second chargesheet into the developments related to the ODI after the one filed by the police yesterday under section 336 of the IPC. The chargesheet filed yesterday also in the court of JMFC, Margao, charged Narvekar, a former deputy chief minister, Phadke, Shankardas and a GCA member, Vivek Pednekar, with lapses on their part to `undertake measures for the safety of public, endangering human lives and with failure to verify between genuine and fake ticket holders.'