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	Letter to Ms. Bhubneshwari Kumari (Government Observer Squash) Letter to Ministry of Sports

	To, The Secretary Sports Rahul/Ira Kumar MYAS J – 501 Shastri Bhawan Som Vihar Government of India R K Puram New Delhi – 110001 New Delhi - 22 30/12/2009 Cell- 9873422582 Subject – Violations of compliance requirements for automatic renewal of Government recognition even after Nov/Dec 2009 circulars Dear Madam, Despite numerous complaints ; continuous flaunting of Government Guidelines till today and unanswered RTI’s even years and months after the stipulated period some of the SAI/MYAS officials are still trying to shield the SRFI(Squash Rackets Federation of India) I am stating some of the immediate violations which prove that the SRFI has no intention to follow the new circulars and have reneged on most of them in the past couple of weeks. 1 AGE FRAUD – A girl named Pankhuri Malhotra was exposed with verifiable evidence last month even though the suspicion focused on her through an anonymous letter sent last year. Though the father confessed to the fraud at a DSA (Delhi Association ) meeting and the G.O and purported National Coach Cyrus were also privy to the information , no action was taken. Her entry was removed from the British Open so that international repercussions could be avoided but she was allowed to play the DDA Open and Senior Nationals which ended on 19/12/09. Even BI Singh who gave a favourable report to the DSA age cheats and now in the WSF Medical/Anti Doping committee ignored Pankhuri’s case as he had abetted Vijay Goel (DSA) in vindicating Dhampur overage players in the past. Annexure A( 10 pages) 2 UNACCREDITTED NATIONAL COACHES – The RTI’s state that Cyrus Poncha has not been an appointee of SAI/MYAS or SRFI. All evidence shows that his loyalty and actions were focused to promote TNSRA (Tamil Nadu Squash Association) ISA & ICL (private squash academies with 95% TNSRA players) How can such a person with no contract (RTI’s) serve India and be held accountable when documents and remuneration show his responsibility only to private institutions. A complaint to the JS MYAS (Grievance Redress) about this tainted coach dated 16/7/09 has not brought any response . Ironically the circular of 25/12/09 on Age Fraud evades the issue of the coaches, federations, institutions and parents who are the main perpetrators. A clear case of connivance to absolve the NFS.s from the blame and only penalize minor kids. It has now been revealed in a spate of RTI’s that Maniam the SRFI Foreign Consultant Coach was contracted under false pretexts and used for other purposes than defined in his contract at the expense of 1 crore 15 lakhs and income tax paid by SAI. Instead of being punished for dereliction of duty his Tripartite Agreement scheduled to be signed in May 2002 was hurriedly reworked with altered goals in May 08, but unsigned by the 1st party SAI ! If this does not reek of collusion what does. Annexure B( 11 pages) 3 WORLD JUNIORS 2009 – The complaints made against the SRFI by parents and NCPCR for not including the top Delhi girls has been finally answered 5 months later by absurd arguments by the “out termed “Sec Gen Srivats . The same girls who were not good enough have come 5th, 6th and in the last 16 of the Women’s Senior Nationals and a few months ago they were not good enough for exposure for an U-19 event despite 28 empty slots for an MYAS sponsored tournaments at no cost to Government ! Annexure C ( 4 pages) 4 ATTEMPTS TO MURDER – Another attack( 4th) was made on me by the MYAS recognized SRFI just outside the ISA Academy on t 31/7/09. This does not pertain only to the World Juniors but the exposure of the financial frauds, massive disappearances of squash infrastructure and connivance between the SRFI/MYSA and SAI. As usual no action has been taken by the Chennai police but I will not let the matter rest. Annexure D ( 2 pages) 5 GRIEVANCE REDRESS – Since the JS (MYAS Grievance redress in charge)) has replied in an RTI that there are no norms or separate mechanism for redress and the complainants are sent back to their NFS’s who are in most cases the perpetrators and have no redress system themselves. What does this say about the MYAS attitude towards the players and the non existence of basic norms which gave false hopes to athletes who approached the Ministry in good faith. Till today the GG attested by Justice Geeta Mittal for answering within 8 weeks is not adhered to and nor has the SRFI instituted the same. Karm’s video tape has not been obtained from the SRFI despite informing all the sports departments, probably because it will expose the collusion of the GO, SRFI selection committee MYAS and SAI from shielding one of the most corrupt, vindictive and non complaint federations in history. Annexure E( 5 pages) 6 SELECTIONS – The basic criteria for selections laid down by the GG have been done away with and inter changed by 38 different ones to be used selectively to chose the pre determined players. Annexure F(11 pages) 7 SENIOR NATIONALS DELHI 12/09 – No ranking system has been implemented despite a government order. Only the Women’s Senior Nationals was converted into a WISPA (World International Squash Professional Association) event but none of the competitors, press or SRFI websites carried that. The fact that no seeding was given on a local or WISPA basis resulted in Surbhi Mishra pulling out after her draw had been changed. Surprisingly the men’s event was not made a PSA. Annexure G ( 6 pages) 8 SENIOR NATIONALS INTER STATE DELHI 12/09 – The blatant violations of the team placement norms have been broken by the newly appointed WSF (World Squash Federation ) Championship member Mannan Mashruwala. A few months ago he followed absolutely different norms but now favoured the TNSRA team. It is evident that since all these maligned officials have crossed 8 years of their expired terms and thus Ramachandran is inducting them into the World arena so that he can still control India/Indian players indirectly. Annexure H ( 6 pages) 9 GOVERNMENT OBSERVER – There was no GO present for the Nationals thus making a mockery of the proceedings and as such she cannot make any observations about no ranking , direct last minute entries, change of draws, WISPA , Inter State collusion and all processes altered to benefit Tamil Nadu. Annexure I 10 SRFI COMMITTEE – The site today shows the old committee with Ramachandran still Sec Gen . The Junior/Senior Nationals draws and results are also not mentioned. There is no SRFI ranking but the same followed by all others like European, PSA and WISPA are mentioned. Annexure J ( 5 pages) 11 CONTINUED VICTIMIZATION OF KARM – Karm was stopped on false pretexts from playing for Delhi in Inter State despite being no 3 in the A team. A notice cannot be sent to a minor under “ order 32 rule – read in conjunction with the juvenile justice act & Section 11 of the Contract Act “ Secondly the SRFI have stated under oath that the Nationals and Inter State is one tournament and so they should have tried to stop him from playing the individual event. The whole case has been referred to the NCPCR but in between I read your circulars and decided to give priority to the larger cause. The SRFI Sec Gen Srivats has in his letter dated16/7/09 to the JS stated that the Indian Nationals were always closed for the past decade. I am giving a chart of evidence which shows that even the NCC Maniam’s daughter played the Nationals between 2002 to 2005 and trained at the ICL Academy ! Her surname was misleading too as she spelt it as Mani ! Annexure K ( 11 pages) 12 UNANSWERED RTI - 6 unanswered RTI’s/ appeals have been attached. Annexure L ( 8 pages) 13 WEBSITE – The September 29, 2008 MYAS circular has been ignored by the SRFI and they have not complied either with the information or adherence to a fair selection process. Annexure M (3 pages) This is just a tip of the ice berg. In the next couple of days a detailed report with documentary evidence will be given to the MYAS so that they will have irrefutable proof that not only does the SRFI deserves to be disaffiliated but their officials need to charged with victimization, financial misappropriation and non compliance of all Government Guidelines. Is the MYAS waiting for another Rathore / Ruchika incident before it finally decides to stem this regressive regime which has destroyed Indian squash at the behest of one megalomaniac ‘s dream to promote his personal academy at the expense of the entire country. Yours sincerely Rahul Kumar CC Deputy Director MYAS (with Annexures) ------------------------------------------- 12/2/2009 To, The Secretary General Indian Olympic Association Asian Olympic Committee New Delhi -22 Subject – Dismissal of the SRFI selection/seeding committee. Dear Sir , the Indian squash fraternity has been decimated by a common seeding cum selection committee which has been active for over 12 years of non adherence to any rules. The only criteria to represent India is belonging to the ICL Academy in Chennai and signing the Players Commitment Contract. Two generation of over 50 talented players have given up competitive squash as their future was pre determined by this regressive , parochial and nepotistic committee whose only aim was to please the SRFI boss Ramachandran irrespective to the losses suffered by the players or the country. This SRFI committee has consistently broken all the rules and norms followed by the World Squash Federation , Asian Squash Federation , Commonwealth , Olympic Committee and the Indian Government Guidelines. They have declared in court that a ranking system cannot be followed , which is the main criteria for recognition by the bodies mentioned above. They have not followed their own LTDP which has been approved by the MYAS and got them funding. They have no grievance cell and a compromised Government Observer who has served their own organization for the past 11 years! The national coach is an employee of a private academy ICL. He plays, recruits,coaches and promotes only the ICL/Tamil Nadu players. The consultant coaches contract is not being revealed as he not promoting squash in India but only in the ICL Academy. He is anti National and proved it by giving some deserving Indian players the worst draws despite a court order. All allegations can be proved by documentary evidence. Incidentally the Secretary Sports MYAS asked me to make an official complaint about the SRFI to you. The squash fraternity demands an immediate time bound enquiry into the functioning of the SRFI as the one by MP Ganesh was motivated. Finally the SRFI has brought the IOA, CWG into disrepute by challenging the eligibility of the players entered by your office for the Olympics, Asian and CWG Games. Yours sincerely Rahul Kumar

	7/2/2009 To, Ms. Bhubneshwari Kumari (Government Observer Squash) 20, Aurangzeb Road New Delhi 110011 Subject – Asian Junior trials for Karm Kumar Dear Madam, I was very surprised to see you for Karms selection process as Meherwan Daruwala was supposed to oversee this trials and I had telephonically explained to him the difficulties that we were going to face during the trials. He supposedly had to go to Gujrat and I guess you were called. Since you were not very amicable nor interested at the selection venue to the problems being faced by Karm I have no option but to give our protests in writing. Karm’s first match was conducted by a biased referee Srikant, but despite my protests on the blatant wrong decisions against Karm to the SRFI committee members, they were in vain. When I approached you I was rebuked by “don’t bother me “. Thus I am making all the adversities faced by Karm official so that you can reply to them in your capacity of a reluctant Government Observer. Since the SRFI lawyers on behest of their clients did not include Karm in the initial 8 day trials on the pretext of holding special trials for him, they curtailed his performance by the following 1. The AC was not put on for even a short period so that the conditions would have been less hot & humid as Karm came from Delhi with an up to 20 degrees temperature variation. 2. Karm was supposed to play only 1 match a day but was forced to play 2 of the fittest opponents in adverse conditions on the same day. Ironically the AC was put on for the tournament . 3. Initially Karm was supposed to play a match on the 15th morning too but it was cancelled by Major Maniam quoting a rest day for the Indian players while the foreigners were all practicing. This led to missing out on 1 day of acclimatization by Karm and he had a dehydration & nausea problem on the 14th against Ramit after the 2 tough matches on the 13th and thus could not play to the best of his ability. This fact has been substantiated by his performance against the 3rd seed Kamran Khan under AC conditions and with a days rest. 4. The refereeing by Srikant of Karm’s match was witnessed by you. There was no umpire and despite my request that Srikant was bias Rajiv Reddy refused to change him. When I appealed to Major Maniam, who only came after the 1st game was over he stated that since the match had started nothing could be done. When I told him I had protested before the match and asked for Bala who was the other referee assigned by SRFI, Rajiv had refused. Then Maniam had no comment. Aditya Jagtap also volunteered to referee but was refused. Thus Karm had to play a ICL player with a bias ICL referee. The next day the Delhi High Court ordered Srikant not to referee Karm’s matches but the damage was done. What are your comments on Shrikants refereeing . Have you made a report to the MYAS or given your views to the SRFI. Was he fair, biased or incompetent? The result of this match was the most crucial to be selected in the Indian team. Please reply as soon as possible as your comments are required for many ongoing enquiries. Yours sincerely Rahul Kumar J-501, SOM VIHAR, SANGAM MARG, R.K. PURAM, NEW DELHI 110022 Copy to: Secretary Sports MYAS CWG Committee DG SAI Meherwan Daruwala Govt. Observer

	30/12/2008 To, The Secretary Sports MYAS J – 501 Shastri Bhawan Government of India New Delhi – 110001 Subject – Victimization of Karm by the SRFI by altering global norms of sports and OCI’s/PIO’s Dear Sir, the Sports Ministry has unwittingly been dragged into formulating regressive policies just because the ex General Secretary of the SRFI Mr. N. Ramachandran wanted to insure that our son would not be able to play National or International tournaments. The reasons for this are that we have been one of the few people who have been exposing the malpractices of the SRFI through complaints to the MYAS, Government Observers , RTI’s, media and writ petitions in the Delhi High Courts. Despite numerous threats to me and our son we have weathered the barrage of discrimination against my son in the form of bad draws , entries not excepted , targeted in refereeing decisions, wrong scores published & sidelined from representing the country. The irony is that Mr. Ramachandran had to stoop to blatant lies to try to debar him and thus committed perjury by false testimonies in court. We have filed perjury against a couple of them and they are being forwarded to the criminal court. The MYAS lawyers have all the documents pertaining to these facts. It is very unfortunate that despite numerous complaints since 1996 against the functioning of the SRFI no action was ever taken against it. The only enquiry in 2006 initiated due to my complaints was conducted in a few hours by Mr MP Ganesh who had only been admonished for financial mismanagement to the tune of 2.5 crore during his tenure at SAI Bangalore. That was probably the reason for the rejection of his plea for extension and his last act before retirement was a clean chit to the SRFI. His report was so biased and shallow that the MYAS did not send it to me, the GO or take any action on it for one year and in between Mr Ganesh had retired and thus would not be answerable. I have over 50 documents to prove that his report was a cover up and many of the state squash associations would demand a new enquiry on the lines of the Monica Devi one. The squash fraternity would be very grateful if you could read the report of the ex GO Brig. Manchanda - the counter by SRFI & the final reply to that before the GO was summarily dismissed on their instigation, as he had exposed the extent to which the SRFI could stoop to save their skin. There are probably more cases against the SRFI than against all the Federations combined. The same applies to the complaints sent against them and the MYAS ‘s RTI’s reply has conveniently lost the ones sent before 2005. Mr Ramachandran also has the maximum amount of titles than any other NF bigwigs, and thus he can counter and extinguish any complaint at the onset. He is the WSF, ASF & Tamil Nadu Squash Rackets Association President. He is a VP of the IOA & TN Olympic Association. He is a CWG committee member. His status in SAI is unclear but he was in the executive committee, as in SDAT (Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu) As the Ex Dir of ICL, the TNSRA squash center & National coaches are under him. This exposes the farce of him resigning as the GS of the SRFI as he still controls Indian squash through his posts in TNSRA, ICL , SDAT & his son & wife and coaches who are spread among these associations. Besides these he also represents triathlon, swimming, cycling , hockey etc through different official posts. Since the background has been clarified the present scenario is that since my son’s eligibility for all international representation is positive and the only way he could stop him was to challenge his status. But Justice Sistani’s judgment was a draw back as it allowed all Indian origin players of all age groups to represent India. Thus he embarked on a regressive strategy to play the patriotic card to get all PIO’s/OCI’s barred , and put the onus on the MYAS to do his bidding without exposing his role. He even went to the extent of forgetting that all the World bodies he represents allow alien passport holders under certain conditions to represent other countries. How he influenced the Ministry of Indian Overseas Affairs to change the status of over a million NRI’s by motivated pseudo jingoism, just to spite a 17 year old minor is beyond comprehension! The consequences of these actions will be court cases on the rule of estoppels – non adherence to MYAS’s own guidelines , Olympic Charter etc, apart from our progressive nation sending conflicting signals to the world and people of Indian origin. The greater controversy will be a breach of trust to the conditions printed on the OCI/PIO card. Now by removing financial benefits and introducing negative clauses these cards will become glorified permanent visas , the clarifications of which will become mandatory due to the present actions. Does the MYAS really want to send such a retrograde signal to the World on the eve of the Commonwealth Games ! All famous NRI’s in the past have been honoured and promised more freedom and probable full dual nationality. In all other fields foreign students, companies, equipment etc are competing with Indians on our home turf. Does the MYAS really want to open a floodgate of litigations and antagonize top players who have migrated to India , in retrospect, on false promises. If only the MYAS /SAI grievance cells had worked in the interests of the players and not the federations this would not have come to loggerheads. If the players complaints had got a sympathetic hearing and an effort had been made to resolve their pressing grievances all this would not have occurred. The fact is that the consequence of any complaint is it being forwarded to the concerned federation ,which ensures that the complainant is so rigorously victimized for having the audacity to complain that he does not repeat it or follow up. The MYAS deems the case as closed and the respective federation is absolved. An interesting comment by one of the senior MYAS officers was that if we follow the Government Guidelines all the Sports federations will be in violation. I replied that is not our problem and the solution is to investigate and disaffiliate the worst offender, which will send the correct signal to the others. Thus a new interactive enquiry should be conducted through a respectable senior judge etc based on the earlier unanswered complaints and present grievances with inputs from both sides till their logical conclusions which is the exposure of the guilty party. The status of our son on the eligibility list is by far above the rest, as he is one of the only ones who was born in India, is domiciled here for the last 17 years , has represented Delhi from 2003 to 2007 till the SRFI stopped him in 2008. In all games ranging from Tennis, football , cricket to athletics a person born in India and resident of a city for over 3 years is allowed to represent his state or city. They even deprived him of that by lying that the Nationals & Inter State are one tournament. Does he need an Indian passport to represent Delhi too ! His British passport & OCI entitle him to Asian & CWG games for which surprisingly US passport holders & residents have been allowed. He has never trained in the supposedly National training center in Chennai , never been called for camps which he was entitled too , nor were any fitness tests conducted on him according to their own LTDP. He did not get any of the privileges accorded to him and his name was put on their CWG list on their own. He was never called to their clandestine state training centers and nor was his performance monitored. Despite having represented India in the Asian Juniors in 2006 & no change of rules by the ASF he was not allowed for the selection trials. An eligibility chart has been attached for your reference All his success have been despite victimization by the SRFI and the only financial implications for us were spending more money on litigation against the SRFI instead of using that money for training him & sending him abroad for exposure. Karm is the only player with a foreign passport who has only played abroad once while his counterparts with Indian passports have played numerous tournaments abroad. Despite that he has been beating full time players who have trained under the wings of the SRFI Academy by many National coaches. Unlike the tennis players he has no abode abroad or in the UK as he has never even visited that country. Instead the UK rules bar him from representing them as he has not lived there for a period of 3 years and nor has he played their ranking tournaments. Now after a positive judgment from the court the MYAS wants to continue the agenda of the SRFI to victimize my son and make him stateless and ineligible to represent any country , state or city ! This is one man’s vendetta against a minor hoping that by barring Karm and forcing him to go abroad his parents will give up. What he doesn’t know that this is a crusade and we have a great deal of supporters and it will not stop till squash is cleaned up and all players get an equal right to prosper. This person who holds offices in the IOA , CWG and is the President of the Asian and World Federation does not even know the eligibility rules of any of them ! To escape being exposed and avoid the ignominy if Karm would be found eligible by all four bodies , he has decided to get India’s policy changed so that he may evade the perjury charges by stating he had prior information of the MYAS policies. I hope the MYAS will take all the facts into consideration and not debar the players already selected in various programs and consider reversing this policy as it will alienate people of Indian ancestry abroad and send conflicting signals to the IOC and other world sport governing bodies. ( EXPLANATORY CHARTS ATTACHED ) Yours sincerely Rahul Kumar J-501, SOM VIHAR, SANGAM MARG, R.K. PURAM, NEW DELHI 110022