Former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Jagmohan Dalmiya on Thursday, challenged his expulsion for life from the Board in a civil suit in the Calcutta high court.
Dalmiya, who had to resign from the president's post of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) as a result, filed the suit against the BCCI, its President Sharad Pawar, Secretary Niranjan Shah, Shashank Manohar, Chirayu Amin and N Srinivasan.
Dalmiya claimed in his petition that the reasons given for his expulsion, on charges of misappropristion of funds related to the 1996 World Cup, were totally false, fabricated and made with a pre-determined biased motive.
Dalmiya also claimed that the rule (Rule 38) itself, under which the disciplinary proceeding was initiated, was non-existent in the eye of law.
The former Board president also challenged the legality and validity of Clause 38(V) of the BCCI Rules that provided for removal of the expelled person from the affiliated units of the Board.
He claimed that Clause 38, which was amended in September 2000, has not been registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Act under which the BCCI is registered and as such not legally tenable.
The matter would come up for hearing in the high court at a later date.
Dalmiya, who held sway over the Board for over a decade, was accused by the present dispensation of financial irregularities in connection with PILCOM (Pakistan, India, Lanka Committee on World Cup 1996) accounts and was expelled from the board for life.
