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Ernakulam District Congress Committee (DCC) president Muhammed Shiyas connected Friday (October 31) lodged a ailment with the metropolis constabulary against Reporter Broadcasting Company managing manager Anto Augustine and Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) Chairman K. Chandran Pillai, alleging encroachment connected the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium astatine Kaloor.
The ailment was filed a time aft the Palarivattom constabulary registered a lawsuit implicit alleged trespass connected the stadium based connected a petition filed by the GCDA pursuing a sojourn to the stadium by a delegation led by Mr. Shiyas. The stadium has been astatine the centre of a governmental contention implicit the now-cancelled planetary shot affable betwixt Lionel Messi-led Argentina and Australia.
In his ailment lodged with the District Police Chief (Kochi City), Mr. Shiyas alleged that actions taken by Mr. Augustine and Mr. Pillai successful the sanction of renovating the stadium for the lucifer had resulted successful transgression trespass, encroachment, amerciable possession, alteration, and misuse of nationalist property.
The ailment said that the possession and power of the stadium was handed implicit to Mr. Augustine’s steadfast by the GCDA successful implicit usurpation of ineligible and administrative procedures governing the absorption of nationalist property. “There exists nary Memorandum of Understanding oregon authoritative papers establishing immoderate lawful narration betwixt the GCDA and Reporter Broadcasting Company, and the second took amerciable possession of the stadium premises and carried retired extended alterations and unauthorised works without immoderate support from competent authorities,” Mr. Shiyas said.
The authorities, particularly Mr. Pillai, had joined hands with Mr. Augustine for carrying retired amerciable activities, the ailment said. Citing assorted allegations of fiscal fraud against Mr. Augustine, Mr. Shiyas said alternatively of addressing and investigating sedate and well-documented irregularities, the constabulary and agencies acrophobic appeared to person acted arsenic a shield to support tainted individuals.
