The All India Soccer Federation (AIFF) has suspended the underfire Govt Committee (EC) member Deepak Sharma from all footballing activities. Sharma has been going through the fees of actual physical assault in opposition to two women’s footballers.
The Emergency Committee of the AIFF comprising president Kalyan Chaubey, vice president NA Haris, and treasurer Kipa Ajay took cognizance of the issues filed by the two women’s footballers of Indian Women’s League 2 (IWL) club Khad FC towards Sharma.
Sharma had been arrested by Goa police just after the Goa Football Affiliation (GFA) lodged a complaint against him with the police. Sharma was later on produced on bail. Two users of the Khad FC had accused the senior AIFF official of barging by their area and physically assaulting them on March 28.
The gamers also complained to AIFF’s Opposition Committee the next working day.
On March 30, AIFF had asked Sharma to stay absent from soccer-relevant activities until the completion of an investigation by the Ad-Hoc Committee chaired by Pinky Bompal Magar into the incident.
Adhering to the views and tips shared by the member associations of the federation, an crisis conference was called on April 2, 2024, to establish the subsequent training course of motion in the subject.
These days, the Govt Committee associates met, and after a thorough dialogue, it dissolved the Advertisement Hoc Committee and straight away referred the matter to the AIFF Disciplinary Committee.
Reacting to the circumstance, AIFF president Kalyan Chaubey said, “The AIFF is decided to advertise women’s football in a safe and sound and enabling atmosphere and will just take all needed actions to guarantee this. The incident in Goa in the course of IWL 2 must not be amplified to undermine the AIFF’s developmental efforts in women’s football. The distinct situation has now been referred to the Disciplinary Committee and will be taken up emergently.”
In the meantime, the AIFF claimed it has taken vital ways to be certain the protected passage of the complainants to their hometowns and will proceed to offer any support that could possibly be essential.