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With yet different ailment of property fraud arising astatine the Kerala School Sports Meet, Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty has said that those liable for the fraud volition not beryllium allowed to instrumentality portion successful the schoolhouse conscionable oregon immoderate different meet.
The results of elder girls’ 100 m and 200 m astatine the conscionable were withheld pursuing complaints that the metallic medallist successful some the events had committed property fraud.
After the contestant hailing from Uttar Pradesh, but representing St. Joseph’s Higher Secondary School (HSS), Pulloorampara successful Kozhikode territory competed successful the under-19 category, RM HSS, Aloor, and BEM HSS, Palakkad, submitted an authoritative ailment that her day of commencement arsenic connected the Athletics Federation of India website made her ineligible to vie successful the U-19 category.
The results of some the events person present been changed with the contestants successful the 3rd and 4th spot moved up to 2nd and 3rd positions respectively.
St. Joseph’s recovered itself successful a caller contention aft the golden medallist successful the sub-junior boys’ 100-m and 200-m categories, who is besides from Uttar Pradesh, was besides alleged to person committed property fraud.
Responding to complaints of property fraud and wealth changing hands to bring young sportspersons from different States to vie successful the schoolhouse sports meet, the Minister said strict enactment would beryllium taken successful specified cases. He besides referred to amerciable practices that had travel to the department’s attraction specified arsenic children of coaches competing successful events and the coaches acting arsenic judges successful those events.
“Action volition beryllium taken against schools too. No leniency volition beryllium shown against those trying to besmirch the estimation of specified an event,” the Minister said.
An enforcement bid would beryllium brought retired to cheque specified fraud, helium added.
