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BCCI to demand Rs. 47 crore from Dalmiya

The BCCI has decided to ask its former chief Jagmohan Dalmiya to pay up over Rs 47 crore for alleged misappropriation of 1996 World Cup funds, failing which it will drag the veteran administrator into a civil suit for recovering the amount.

This decision was taken at the BCCI’s Working Committee meeting held at its headquarters here on Saturday which was chaired by its chief Sharad Pawar.

“The police have filed a criminal case against him and we want the money to be recovered. Since we can’t file the civil suit after February 2009, as it will become time-barred then, we want to do soon and recover Rs 47.77 crore that he owes the BCCI,” Board sources said.

Dalmiya, arrested on March 26 this year and released on bail for alleged misappropriation of PILCOM Pak-India-Lanka Committee funds, later stormed back at the helm of affairs of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) at its elections last month.

But, the former president of the International Cricket Council, the first from Asia to do so, chose to skip Saturday’s Working Committee meeting and CAB was represented at the one-day sitting by Biswarup Dey.

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