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A time aft the Meghalaya State Commission for Women (MSCW) summoned 4 officials of the Meghalaya Cricket Association (MCA) successful transportation with an alleged intersexual harassment of the State’s Under-23 women’s cricket team, the association’s president, James P.K. Sangma, said helium was kept successful the acheronian astir the complaints filed successful December 2025.
In a connection issued connected Saturday, (May 23, 2026), Mr. Sangma condemned the “cover-up” of the intersexual harassment complaints, alleging that MCA caput Rayonald Kharkamni tried to hide the substance for astir six months.
Mr. Kharkamni is 1 of the 4 MCA officials whom the MSCW chairperson, Iamonlang Syiem, summoned for a proceeding connected May 26. The others are erstwhile president Nababrata Bhattacharjee, erstwhile treasurer Dhrubajyoti Thakuria, and erstwhile cricket operations manager Shining Star Lyngdoh.
“…the allegations… are a substance of sedate interest to me… and they request to beryllium treated with the afloat seriousness they deserve. Sexual harassment, successful immoderate signifier and successful immoderate setting, beryllium it a sports relation oregon immoderate different instauration oregon organisation, is wholly unacceptable,” Mr. Sangma wrote successful the connection mailed to The Hindu on Sunday. (May 24, 2026).
Mr. Sangma assumed complaint arsenic the MCA president connected January 16, much than a period aft 15 members of the U-23 women’s cricket squad lodged the ailment against the team’s caput manager and manager with the relation connected December 3, 2025. The incidents reportedly occurred during a cricket tourney successful Agartala, Tripura.
The substance was allegedly buried arsenic the MCA headed for its predetermination connected December 19, 2025.
“Feigning ignorance successful the sanction of elections erstwhile a larger substance was astatine hand, misleading everyone erstwhile till day nary enquiry was conducted, oregon adjacent a basal effect fixed to complainants, tells the larger communicative of what the MCA has been and continues to beryllium for immoderate radical successful it,” Mr. Sangma said.
He criticised the determination to see the accused squad manager successful the information database for the North East Cricket Development Council U-23 Women’s T20 Trophy, held from April 6 to 11 successful Sikkim.
Mr. Sangma said the intersexual harassment contented came to airy erstwhile the aggrieved U-23 women’s cricket squad filed a ailment earlier the MCA Ombudsman, retired justice B.D. Agarwal, connected May 8. He said helium requested that the Ombudsman look into the ailment and initiate a elaborate investigation.
Mr. Sangma said the MCA caput convened a gathering connected May 9, portion keeping him successful the dark, with the “apparent nonsubjective of mounting speech the bureau of the Ombudsman altogether, which would person had the effect of rendering invalid immoderate autarkic involution into this precise substance of intersexual harassment”.
He said helium would attack the High Court of Meghalaya to guarantee that “technical nuances” bash not derail the Ombudsman’s enquiry against the errant officials.
