The DDCA official also said that top officials from GMR group will be meeting Justice Mukul Mudgal on Tuesday to discuss smooth conduct of IPL matches © IANS
New Delhi: The under-fire DDCA officials deposited an amount of Rs 83 lakh as land assessment fee of Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium to the Land & Development Office (L&DO) as 520 seats are set to be removed under the new regulations set by Municipal Corporation of Delhi. “We have got the acknowledgement receipt for the draft that we have submitted. Expected by Wednesday, we will get the NOC from the L&DO. The MCD engineers today inspected the stadium and told us about all the requirements. The removal of 520 seats, which was a deviation from stadium plan, has already started. The work has started for areas allocated for toilets which were earlier changed into food courts,” a senior DDCA official told PTI. Court allows Arun Jaitley’s plea to summon DDCA records
The DDCA official also said that top officials from GMR group, the owner of Delhi Daredevils, will be meeting Justice Mukul Mudgal on Tuesday to discuss smooth conduct of IPL matches. When a GMR official was contacted in this regard, he refused to divulge any details about the said meeting. “Please do not read too much into this meeting. We have met Justice Mudgal earlier also and this is a courtesy meeting,” the official of the local IPL franchise said. BCCI gives no response following DDCA’s plea for 10-day deadline extension
Earlier, a court on Monday allowed union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley‘s plea seeking summoning of records of Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) in a criminal defamation complaint filed by him against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khangwal allowed Jaitley’s plea seeking summoning of records of DDCA from December 1999 to December 2003, when he was the association’s president. The court which is going to hear the matter on February 3, is currently recording statement of complainant’s witnesses in the case.