Integrity officer gives AIFF general secretary Kushal Das clean chit on molestation charges

Kushal Das has been cleared of the charge of molesting employees at workplace by the sports body's integrity officer, who termed the allegations "frivolous and devoid of truth" in his report. Entrepreneur Ranjit Bajaj, who previously owned I-League club Minerva Punjab FC, on Monday alleged that Das had molested employees at workplace, a charge that was outrightly by the AIFF and its top official.

The AIFF's integrity officer, Javed Siraj said he has come to the conclusion after conducting the inquiry which included questioning of the presiding officers of the federation's internal complaints committee over the years. Lt Col B M R Mehta (Retd), who is AGS (administration) at AIFF, was also sent a questionnaire by Siraj.

"All the presiding officers of the committee namely Shanta Gopinath, Manager, Jyotsna Gupta, EA, Indu Chaudhry, Sr Manager and Mr Col Mehta AGS Admin were questioned by sending questionnaires. All of them have stated that no complaint of sexual harassment was received against Mr Kushal Das or any employee of AIFF and no case of sexual harassment ever occurred in the AIFF," he stated in his confidential report.

In the report he said further, "Col Mehta specifically mentioned that he has been working as head of administration since 2011 and no complaint was received by him in 2015 in his capacity as head of administration. "This is specifically with regards to the tweet of Mr Bajaj about an incident allegedly happening at Taj Mahal Hotel New Delhi.