BCCI v/s Lodha Committee: Board sends only 3 states audit reports to SC

BCCI v/s Lodha Committee: Board sends only 3 states audit reports to SC.With Thursday being the last day of the Supreme Court's deadline for submission of internal audit report, the Board of Control for Cricket India (BCCI) cricket board only sent reports of three state associations. The report was sought by Justice RM Lodha Commission after dna revealed how Deloitte, which was appointed by then president Shashank

Manohar to carry out internal audit of state associations, found blatant misuse of 'cricketing funds' by many states. A source in the Lodha committee did confirm to dna that "only three states' audit reports" have been sent on the last day of the deadline. The three states are apparently be Hyderabad, Odisha and Goa. There is no word on the status of other states for which audit was conducted during the same time.

The internal audit findings on a number of full members had revealed misuse of money received from the BCCI as television subvention, IPL money and other grants.

BCCI's open defiance once again has come two days after the Apex court allowed Lodha panel to release money for the ongoing Test series against England. But all this came with a caveat that all payments can be made directly to the vendors and not to the defiant states.

DNA quoted a source in a report on how Hyderabad Cricket Association distributed gold coins and gold jewellery to all its managing committee members or how Goa bought some 18 luxury cars for the personal use of its managing committee members. The case of Odisha is even hilarious where its accounts, submitted to audit firm, were hand written in this digital age.

Sources in Lodha committee hinted that "directions of the Apex court concerning appointment of the auditors and fixing of threshold value (for states) will be placed before the members of committee (Lodha) and be put to a vote".