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New Delhi/Cuttack, Jan 22: The Supreme Court Thursday ordered that an audit be held of the Orissa Olympic Association (OOA) accounts by the state accountant general (AG). The court issued the order while considering a case of alleged land encroachment by the sports body near the Barabati Stadium.
The court, in its order, directed the AG to audit the accounts and submit a report to the court within six weeks.
The court also ordered constitution of a committee comprising Cuttack collector and two ADMs of the district to take charge of the Kalyan Mandap (Barabati Palace) and 23 shops that had come up on the encroached land.
The committee will function under the revenue secretary of the state government, the court ordered.
The OAA had got relief December 11, 2014 with a Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Dipak Misra and Justice UU Lalit granting a stay on the crime branch probe that the Orissa high court had ordered into the dispute. The appeal was filed in the Supreme Court by the OOA.
While issuing notice returnable within six weeks to the state government, the interim order said:
“There shall be a stay of operation of the impugned order till the next date of hearing.”
The single judge bench of Justice BP Ray of the high court had delivered the judgment November 29.
The court did so while dealing with the dispute involving the encroached area (0.705 acres) adjacent to a larger area (20.808 acres), which was granted on lease to the OOA by the state government in 1949 for construction of the Barabati Stadium.
