Khelo India Games Fraud: SAI Dials UP Police, Agra District Magistrate
News 18The Sports Authority of India has requested the Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police and the Agra District Magistrate to lodge an FIR and take immediate action in the matter of a potentially huge fraud in the name of Khelo India Games. SAI came to know about the fraud when a few young athletes from Kerala informed it about an “Agra-based man from Patna” seeking money to ensure participation in the Khelo India Games, to be held in Panchkula Haryana next year. SAI said in its letter to the DGP, dated November 4, that a person is “extracting money” in the name of selection for Khelo India Games — meant essentially for school students and extended to university students last year — that carry attractive prize money, not just for athletes but also for their coaches. In its letter to the Agra DM, also dated November 4, SAI said that the An earlier statement from SAI on Thursday had stated that the accused was asking a sum of Rs.6,000 to be deposited by aspiring athletes for enrolling in the Khelo India camp.