Dalmiya can contest polls
CricInfo, undated
The Calcutta High Court today stayed the BCCI's suspension of Jagmohan Dalmiya and directed that he was free to contest next week's election to the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB). Nominations for the election close on Friday evening. Soon after the decision, Dalmiya filed a perjury case against the Indian board before the court. The BCCI responded by moving a division bench and sought leave to move an appeal on Monday, July 23 against the order of Justice Indira Banerjee claiming that the order would affect the functioning of BCCI and also several of its previous decisions. Upholding Dalmiya's application against the suspension imposed by BCCI, headed by Sharad Pawar, last December, Justice Indira Banerjee observed that the rule under which he was suspended was not registered and, as such, was illegal. The judge said there was no bar on Dalmiya contesting any elections of the BCCI or CAB. The BCCI had suspended Dalmiya following allegations of his involvement in misappropriation of funds of the Pakistan-India-Lanka Committee (PILCOM), the organising body of the 1996 World Cup held in the subcontinent. Following his suspension, Dalmiya resigned as CAB president and Prasun Mukherjee, also Kolkata's police commissioner, was elected unopposed to the post. Mukherjee, who had lost the presidential race in a bitterly-contested CAB polls to Dalmiya in July last year, is seeking re-election to the top job. After getting the reprieve, Dalmiya's counsel, Arindam Bannerjee, revealed the counter case. "We have filed a perjury case against the Board and members of the disciplinary committee which had expelled Dalmiya." The case was filed against the BCCI, Sharad Pawar, its president, Niranjan Shah, Shashank Manohar and Chirayu Amin. Banerjee alleged that the board had placed a forged document before Justice Banerjee regarding the condonation of time application for the registration of an amendment to BCCI's Clause V of Rule 38. He also alleged that the board had incorrectly claimed to have been permitted by the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration (TNSR) body to register the amendment at a later date. Banerjee, stating that an amendment must be registered with TNSRA within three months, claimed that the application for condonation of delay was filed six years after the amendment was made in September, 2000. It was applied for only after the suspension of Dalmiya, he claimed. The perjury case was filed under Section 340 of criminal procedure code for allegedly providing false information to the court. The matter would be moved shortly before the High Court, he said.
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