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The All India Soccer Federation (AIFF) on April 2 suspended its govt committee member Deepak Sharma till additional discover for his alleged bodily assault of two ladies gamers in Goa, two days after it stopped in need of doing the identical.
Two footballers of Himachal Pradesh-based Khad FC, participating within the Indian Ladies’s Soccer (IWL) League second division, had alleged that Mr. Sharma, the proprietor of the membership, had barged into their room and bodily assaulted them on the evening of March 28.
On Saturday, the AIFF requested Mr. Sharma to chorus from football-related actions until the conclusion of a probe by a panel into his alleged incident. Mr. Sharma was arrested by Goa police after the host State affiliation lodged a grievance and later launched on bail.
“The AIFF Govt Committee has determined to droop Mr. Deepak Sharma from collaborating in any football-related actions till additional discover,” the nationwide federation mentioned in a launch.
Earlier than that, the Emergency Committee of the AIFF comprising president Kalyan Chaubey, vice-president N.A. Haris and treasurer Kipa Ajay, on Monday took inventory of the complaints obtained from the gamers in opposition to Mr. Sharma.
Thereafter, a gathering of AIFF member associations was held on Monday evening and “Mr. Sharma was known as and heard for a couple of minutes earlier than he was suggested to depart the assembly”.
Within the grievance despatched to the AIFF, the 2 gamers mentioned, based on sources, that Mr. Sharma was largely in an inebriated state they usually had been “scared for his or her lives”.
Sports activities Minister Anurag Thakur had additionally requested the AIFF to take “fast” and “sturdy authorized motion” in opposition to the official.
On Tuesday, the AIFF additionally dissolved the three-member committee shaped on March 30 to probe the incident, and as an alternative referred the matter to its Disciplinary Committee.
“The AIFF is set to advertise ladies’s soccer in a protected and enabling atmosphere and can take all vital steps to make sure this. The case has now been referred to the Disciplinary Committee and will probably be taken up emergently,” Chuabey mentioned.
“The AIFF has taken all steps vital to make sure the protected passage of the complainants to their hometowns and can proceed to supply any assist that is likely to be vital.”
He mentioned the AIFF has been on the forefront of improvement of ladies’s soccer since he took cost as its president.
“There are presently 27,030 registered ladies gamers within the nation with 15,293 registered between September 2022 and March 2024. The rise in variety of ladies footballers in numerous age teams is among the most encouraging traits,” Mr. Chaubey mentioned.
“This season, we began the IWL 2 for the primary time, and there’s a particular plan to introduce promotion and relegation within the IWL from the following season. India made their best-ever end (runners-up) in Turkish Ladies’s Cup lately and defeated European opponents.”
