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Kolkata, July 20: 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.
(Agencies)
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