Delhi Cricket In Further Turmoil As Ombudsman Suspends DDCA Directors, Joint Secretary

DDCA now has no President or treasurer after Rajat Sharma and OP Sharma resigned from their respective posts. Meanwhile a Delhi court has ordered suspension of both the Vice President and Secretary, while and Jt Secretary too joined the list on Wednesday.

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New Delhi: DDCA ombudsman Justice Deepak Verma through an interim order ordered that Jt Secretary Rajan Manchanda, Directors Apurv Jain, Alok Mittal, Nitin Gupta be suspended  from undertaking any administrative work. All of them will not be allowed to engage in any administerial work, financial work or in any way be involved in any decision-making process for and on behalf of DDCA. In the order, dated April 15, Verma said that he received an 'urgent application' filed by Sanjay Bhardwaj, drawing his attention towards the resolution initiated by Manchanda for the establishment of a new Committee which shall deal with the appointment of a new standing counsel for the DDCA. Verma said Bhardwaj, in the application, further noted that the resolution has already been rejected by four members of Apex Council, namely, Rakesh Bansal, Vinod Tihara, SN Sharma, and Bhardwaj himself.

DDCA now has no President or treasurer after Rajat Sharma and OP Sharma resigned from their respective posts.  Meanwhile a Delhi court has ordered suspension of both the Vice President and  Secretary, while and Jt Secretary too joined the list on Wednesday.

With this DDCA now has eight vacant slots in the 16  member Apex Council with only govt nominees remaining.

DDCA ombudsman has already ordered a forensic audit while a seperate motion has been requested in Delhi High Court for appointment of an administrator