Herald Publications: Panjim: Friday, June 15, 2012.
Former finance minister Dayanand Narvekar found himself at the receiving end after Mapusa police on Thursday filed a chargesheet against him for forging his son’s birth certificate.
The chargesheet filed before the JMFC, Mapusa and the Goa Children’s court also names his wife and an ex-official of the Mapusa Municipal Council.
On November 7, 2010 Dr Shekhar Salkar had filed a complaint against Narvekar who was the then president of the Goa Cricket Association (GCA) and also the finance minister for misusing power to change his son’s birth certificate so that he could be eligible to play in the under-15 cricket team.
The complaint had also said that Narvekar’s son Ganesh Raj played in the under-15 cricket team three times while the BCCI rules stipulate that a player is eligible to play only twice.
In 2005-06 and 2006-07 Narvekar’s son played as Ganesh Raj with his birth certificate showing his birth date as 1-9-1993 while the third time he played under his original birth certificate with his name showing as Anish Narvekar.
After the complaint, the BCCI had fined the GCA Rs 5000 but no criminal action was taken.
Dr Salkar had obtained this info under RTI and it was found that these certificates were used for education purpose as well. RTI info also revealed that another birth certificate showed his date of birth as 28-02-92 where his mother had signed.
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