ICC charges Bhatinda-based umpire Jatin Kashyap for breaching anti-corruption code
The Hindu
ICC has charged Bhatinda-based umpire Jatin Kashyap for breaching its anti-corruption code following an investigation into “international matches in 2022”
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on May 22 charged Bhatinda-based umpire Jatin Kashyap for breaching its anti-corruption code following an investigation into "international matches in 2022".
The ICC did not specify the incidents related to the breach. Kashyap has officiated in district level matches in Punjab but is not on the BCCI panel.
Kashyap has not officiated even in district matches in the last four years and had vanished from State cricket's umpiring circuit till the global body sought his background from Punjab Cricket Association (PCA).
Kashyap has been charged with "failing or refusing, without compelling justification, to co-operate with the Anti-Corruption Unit’s [ACU] investigation in relation to possible Corrupt Conduct under the Code... " "...including [without limitation] failing to provide accurately and completely any information and/or documentation requested by the ACU [whether as part of a formal Demand pursuant to Article 4.3 or otherwise] as part of such investigation." The second breach relates to "obstructing or delaying the ACU’s investigation in relation to possible Corrupt Conduct under the Code...
"...including [without limitation] concealing, tampering with or destroying any documentation or other information that may be relevant to that investigation and/or that may be evidence of or may lead to the discovery of evidence of Corrupt Conduct under the Code," read an ICC statement.
PCA secretary Dilsher Khanna insisted that ICC charges against Mr. Kashyap have nothing to do with the game in the state.
"The charges have nothing to do with Punjab cricket. The release makes it clear that he has been charged following an investigation into international games," Khanna said.
Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.