Dalmiya expelled from BCCI

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ricinfo staff December 16, 2006 Jagmohan Dalmiya, the former president of the Indian cricket board and the International Cricket Council, has been expelled from the Board of Control for Cricket in India in a decision taken at a meeting held in Jaipur. Dalmiya has been accused of misappropriation of funds and a refusal to provide the relevant accounts and documents pertaining to a few cases. This means that Dalmiya cannot hold any post in the BCCI or its affiliates, and this includes the Cricket Association of Bengal and the National Cricket Club. At present he is the president of both these bodies. This also means that he cannot attend any BCCI meetings in an official captacity. The meeting, chaired by Sharad Pawar, the president of the BCCI, discussed the report submitted by the disciplinary committee, which had earlier found Dalmiya guilty of misappropriation of funds in the PILCOM case. PILCOM was the joint committee comprising India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka that conducted the 1987 World Cup. Dalmiya was invited to attend the special general meeting in Jaipur to present his case, but he chose not to attend, and nominated Saradindu Pal, the secretary of the Cricket Association of Bengal, to represent him. Dalmiya, who had earlier been summoned before the disciplinary committee of the BCCI, had applied in high courts in Sikkim, Kolkata and Chennai, asking that the BCCI be restrained from holding the special general meeting, but did not get any respite from the courts. When this happened it became clear that the BCCI - which needed a two-third's majority, or 22 votes - to pass the order deciding to expel Dalmiya, would face no hurdles.