The Board of Control for Cricket in India is closing in on evidence to nail down its former president Jagmohan Dalmiya.
Two BCCI officials will undertake the trip to get some important Pilcom documents.
MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India is closing in on evidence to nail down its former president Jagmohan Dalmiya. Highly-placed sources in the board have told this paper that two representatives of the BCCI will soon be sent to London to get some ‘important documents’ from former International Cricket Council president Ehsan Mani.
The BCCI, it is learnt, thinks that the papers will give them evidence against Dalmiya, who was suspended from the board in April on grounds of misappropriation of Pilcom funds. Dalmiya has been asked to appear before the Board’s disciplinary committee in New Delhi on July 26 in this context.
During the recent ICC meeting in London, the Board members are believed to have discussed the Pilcom issue with Mani, who was the Pakistan’s Cricket Board’s representative in the Pilcom, the organising committee of the 1996 World Cup in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Mani is understood to have offered the BCCI officials access to the papers.
The Board has decided to depute two persons from the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association, as the TNCA’s president and board treasurer, N Srinivasan, is handling the issue. The Working Committee, which met last Sunday in New Delhi, discussed and approved the trip.
When contacted, Board secretary Niranjan Shah confirmed that two TNCA officials would be visiting London but he denied knowledge of what papers would the two officials be bringing with them. “We do not yet know what papers are with Mani. Apparently there are many papers with him. Our men will go through all of them and will bring whatever is required. But we think there are important documents.”
If is not difficult to discern why Mani, a Pakistan Cricket Board official, is willing to help BCCI. The PCB is keen on an early settlement of the issue as they are due to get some part of the Pilcom money. Mani was not immediately available for comment.
This development, though, has failed to faze Dalmiya’s camp. A personal aide of Dalmiya told DNA that the former BCCI chief was not disturbed by the Board’s decision to send people to London in search of evidence. “Any paper relating to Pilcom will be useful for Dalmiya. He has nothing to fear,” he said. Meanwhile, it learnt that Dalmiya is yet to decide on appearing before the disciplinary committee. In view of the July 30 elections of the Cricket Association of Bengal, he is believed to be seeking a postponement of the hearing. “He is consulting the lawyers. In a day or two he will decide,” a source said.
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