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Perjury charge on Pawar, BCCI officials
Kolkata, Nov. 12: The Calcutta High Court has directed the registration of criminal cases against Union minister Sharad Pawar and the virtual who’s who of the country’s cricket establishment for perjury.
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The order came on a petition filed by Jagmohan Dalmiya that accused the then six key office-bearers of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) of filing a false affidavit in court to justify his expulsion from the cricket board in 2006, reports The Telegraph.
The directive means that unless a higher court allows a stay, the case will be labelled “Calcutta High Court vs BCCI office-bearers”. The high court administrator will appoint a lawyer who will fight the case on its behalf.
Justice Nadira Patheriya directed a registrar of the court to initiate criminal proceedings against Pawar, the former BCCI president and current vice-president of the ICC; Shashank Manohar, the BCCI president; Ratnakar Shetty, the chief administrative officer; N. Srinivasan, the secretary; Chirayu Amin, the vice-president and the junior cricket committee chairman; and Niranjan Shah, the former secretary.
“I am happy that my stand has been vindicated. I have faith in the legal process and I believe in honesty,” said Dalmiya, who has fought his way back to the helm of the Cricket Association of Bengal.
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