PCI sacks Rajesh Tomar as president, contemplates criminal case

PCI sacks Rajesh Tomar as president, contemplates criminal case

• The Paralympics Committee of India (PCI) has sacked its president Rajesh Tomar (in pic) for the gross mismanagement at the recent National Para-Athletics Championship in Ghaziabad, where athletes suffered due to lack of proper facilities.

The Paralympics Committee of India (PCI) has sacked its president Rajesh Tomar for the gross mismanagement at the recent National Para-Athletics Championship in Ghaziabad, where athletes suffered due to lack of proper facilities.

There were also charges of financial mismanagement during the 2014 Incheon Asian Para Games on Tomar.

The decision to suspend Tomar, who blamed the government for the Ghaziabad fiasco, was taken at the Executive Committee meeting of the PCI on April 4 in Bangalore.

The Executive Committee has appointed a three-member panel headed by a retired Delhi High Court Justice to probe Tomar’s “misuse of power” and alleged financial mismanagement. Tomar was not present at the EC meeting.

PCI Secretary General J Chandrashekar told PTI that Tomar was mainly responsible for the mismanagement of the Ghaziabad event but he “shifted” the blame to government instead of owning responsibility as head of the national para sports body.

He said Tomar also suspended five officials blaming them for the Ghaziabad fiasco and appointed an inquiry panel without authority.

In a shocking case of official apathy, differently-abled sportspersons participating in the 15th National Para-Athletics Championships (March 20-22) were put up at unfurnished and unhygienic accommodations in Ghaziabad, prompting the Sports Ministry to seek a report from the organisers.

Interestingly, the PCI Secretary General said that no action will be taken against anybody by the PCI for the Ghaziabad incident.

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