Zeenews Bureau
Calcutta, Nov 12: The Calcutta high court on Wednesday ordered filing of criminal cases against six BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) officials on a petition filed by Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) President Jagmohan Dalmiya.
The six officials against whom the orders have been passed include Sharad Pawar, Ratnakar Shetty, Sasank Manohar, Chirayu Amin, Niranjan Shah and N Srinivasan.
The BCCI officials have been accused of filing a false document in court.
Justice Nadira Pathariya passed the order eight months after Dalmiya, a former BCCI president, moved a case of perjury against Pawar and Board officials and prayed for criminal proceedings against them for allegedly producing false documents in court.
The court passed the ex parte order and directed the Registrar (Original side) to initiate criminal proceedings under section 195 of CR P C (prosecution for contempt of lawful authority of public servants for offences against public justice and for offences relating to documents given in evidence), at an appropriate court. The court then reserved its judgement.
Dalmiya`s counsel submitted that the the former Board
chief had been suspended from the BCCI on the basis of an
amendment that had not been registered.
In his petition, Dalmiya had alleged that the Board
had placed forged documents before the High Court on
condonation of the time of application for the registration of
an amendment to BCCI`s Clause V of Rule 38, which relates to
punitive action against a member of the Board.
He contended that the BCCI had wrongly claimed to have
received permission from the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration
body to register the amendment at a later date.
Stating that an amendment must be registered within
three months, Dalmiya`s counsel submitted that the application
for condonation of delay was filed six years after the
amendment was made in September, 2000.
He contended that it was applied for only after
suspension of the former Board chief, but had not been
obtained then.
Dalmiya was suspended from BCCI by the Board on
December 16, 2006 and subsequently forced to resign from post
of Cricket Association of Bengal President.
Earlier, Dalmiya`s counsel Satyabrata Mukherjee had
submitted in April that the BCCI informing the high court in
2007 that the amendment had been duly done and registered, was
to the contrary.
He had contended that the document produced before the
court was signed by Ratnakar Sheity.
The case of perjury (lying or producing false
documents before a court of law) was filed by Dalmiya on July
20, 2007, the day the high court had declared that his
suspension from the Board was illegal.
