The Indian Premier League (IPL) is known to have the largest fans base among the franchise leagues in the world T20, and therefore, they have a huge craze for the jerseys of several teams. It appears as one of the many sources of income that the BCCI reaches IPL.
It has often been said that the amount of money spent and earned by IPL is a crazy number in terms of T20 tournaments at the franchise. Retain at home an IPL jersey on their favorite side seems to be a desire for each cricket fanatic.
However, in a recently reported flight, the BCCI office security guard at the Wankhede stadium seemed to have taken the desire at another level, because he stole an entire box full of jerseys of the BCCI store.
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IPL JERSEY TOLFT reported at WANKHEDE Stadium
According to reports from the Times of India, the alleged guardian, 40 years old, took the full card of jerseys, which was supposed to contain a total of 261 jerseys, which were worth 6.52 Lakh INR by the BCCI.
The incident took place at the BCCI office of the Wankhede Stadium in Churchgate, where he took a box full of jerseys costing about 2,500 each.
Although the flight was probably produced on June 13, it came in the opinion of the BCCI during a recently conducted audit report, which found differences in the stock. Video surveillance images revealed that the alleged security guard taking a box full of jerseys. BCCI officials filed a complaint for police at the Marine Drive police station on July 17.
The officials reported: “The goalkeeper claims that he has walked a little with the online concessionaire, but he has not yet specified how much he has obtained for the agreement.”
Thief detained in captivity – compound filed by BCCI
The alleged security guard, named Farooque Aslam Khan, sold the box full of online jerseys to a dealer in Haryana whom he had met on social networks. He would have sold the title to finance his dependence on the online game.
The BCCI has not yet confirmed if the jerseys were supposed to be for the players or the general public who would buy them officially. The guard himself lives in Mira Road in Mumbai and sold the jerseys online while the money was credited on his account.
Police summoned the dealer based in Haryana for investigation, to which he replied, saying that he did not know that the jerseys sold to him had been stolen. The goalkeeper may have told the concessionaire that the whole lot was part of a stock authorization due to the renovation of the BCCI office.
Only 50 of these 261 jerseys have been recovered, while the guard claims that he lost all the money in the online game, as revealed by the source you. The police will check their bank account to check the details.
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BCCI generated record income in FY24
The IPL has proven to be a real golden goose for the BCCI, because it contributes to almost 60% of their income, and it played a crucial role in the record increase in the BCCI in income during the year 2024.
The IPL is now 100% of the BCCI and has marked a huge jump of income, and also popularized the game in the country. BCCI generated an annual turnover of 9741.7 Brokes during the year 2023-24. The IPL alone increased an income of around 5761 INR crores (approximately). Even the ICC depends largely on the BCCI for most of its funding.
Wankhedium Stadium 😂😂😂 Bhai ye konsa naya stadium hai? Aur jersey jersey likhne se jersey zyada expensive ho jata hai kya? Quality journalism at its peak! 👏
Wait wait… is this insider job or what? Because BCCI office security should be top class no? And also why so many jersey were kept there in first place? Something is fishy here. Investigation should happen proper way.
Wah bhai! Jersey jersey kya matlab hai? Editing karna bhul gaye kya? Par 6.52 lakh ka chori toh serious hai yaar. BCCI ko security tight karni chahiye abhi se before IPL start hota hai.
Finally some good news for common man! BCCI loots us with ticket prices and now someone looted them haha. Karma is real my friends.
This is actual good that someone highlighting the security issues at big cricket venues. We fans go there to watch match but if security is so weak then what about our safety also? BCCI should take action immediately and fire security head. No excuse for this kind of negligence when they have so much money.
This is very shocking news! How can such big organisation like BCCI have so weak securty? They are earning crores and crores but can’t even protect their own office properly. Shame shame!
Choching IPL Heist sounds like some Bollywood movie name 🎬 Jersey jersey at Wankhedium 🤣 Bhai editor so gaya tha kya likhe time?
6.52 lakh only?? BCCI spends more than that on one player lunch probably lol. They won’t even notice this missing amount 😄