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Kathmandu Friday November 09, 2001 Kartik 24, 2058.
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NSC to file case against Thapa
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Nov 8 - With the final deadline fixed
by Asian Football Confederation (AFC) just a week away for the All Nepal Football
Association (ANFA) elections, the legal battle between National Sports Council (NSC) and
Ganesh Thapa, president of AFC backed ANFA only seems to boil up.
Yagyamurti Banjade, the lawyer appointed by NSC
to follow-up the legal process against Thapa for its financial irregularities during his
tenure under NSC, is likely to file case against him in the Kathmandu district court on
Friday.
Earlier, a three-member ANFA investigation
committee headed by Ram Krishna Nirala had submitted its report to the member-secretary of
NSC citing a number of irregularities during the construction of the ANFA complex at
Satdobato. Thapa was accused of producing fraudulent bills to clear the advances in the
name of construction firm, which does not exist at all, according to the probe committee.
Member-secretary of NSC, Binod Shanker Palikhe,
says that the filing of the case and AFC deadline is mere coincidence. "It’s
only a coincidence and we have not done it on purpose," he says. "It is natural
that case would be filed in court as a follow-up of the Nirala commission findings."
AFC had set November 15 as the last date before
which ANFA elections had to be completed after repeated failures on the part of Nepal
Olympic Committee and NSC to hold the election on previous dates suggested by AFC.
However, Palikhe seems confident that filing a
case against Thapa at such a crucial time will have no effect on the football of Nepal.
"I don’t think it will affect Nepali football in any way."
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