The Calcutta High Court today stayed the BCCI suspension on Jagmohan Dalmiya
and directed that the former cricket board chief was free to contest the coming
Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) polls.
Upholding Dalmiya's application against the suspension imposed by the Sharad Pawar
-led regime in December 2006, Justice Indira Banerjee observed that the
rule under which he was suspended was not registered and as such it was illegal.
Following the ruling, Dalmiya is now free to contest the July
28 elections of the Cricket Association of Bengal, with Justice Banerjee, in
her order, saying now there was no bar on the cricekt administrator from contesting
any elections of BCCI or CAB.
The deadline for filing of nominations for the CAB elections
expires at 1600 hrs today.
The Cricket Board had slapped the suspension on Dalmiya alleging
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 the Kolkata Police Commissioner, was elected
unopposed as the new chief of the association earlier this year.
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.
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