DDCA ombudsman orders forensic audit of accounts

nNEWDELHI:THE ombudsman of the Delhi cricket association, DDCA, has ordered a forensic audit of accounts after failing to get document details of a ~6.25 crore contract awarded to a firm MS Jangid JV for construction and renovation work. Officials of DDCA have also not found the firm at the address given.

Justice (retd) Deepak Verma’s order came after receiving complaints of fraud against the company. He called for the contract documents from the DDCA apex council, tasked with running the cricket body, but did not get them. The firm tasked with the audit has called for balance sheets, minutes (of meetings), incometax returns for the last five years and other documents.

“I had requested Apex Council to provide me with all the financial details of DDCA accounts, however the same has not been done till date. I direct the Apex Council to provide the abovementioned documents within seven days from today, positively,” Verma wrote in a mail to council members on Thursday.

DDCA joint secretary, Rajan Manchanda, the seniormost official after the president, secretary and two other top officials left on various grounds, said association officials were unable to trace the firm’s office in the Sangam Vihar locality as given in the address.

“The address of the company given in the contract doesn’t exist. They had given us House No. 540, gali No. 10, but there was no address beyond House No. 480. The website given also doesn’t exist,” Manchanda said.