Former board office bearers seek anticipatory bail

Former office bearers of the Indian board moved the Bombay High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case registered against them and Jagmohan Dalmiya, the former president, for alleged mis-appropriation of funds to the tune of Indian Rs.2174 million (approx US$49000) pertaining to 1996 World Cup accounts.

SK Nair, the former secretary of the board, and former treasurers, Kishore Rungta and Jyoti Bajpai, filed a petition in the High Court claiming they apprehended arrest in this case. According to an FIR lodged by the board with the Marine Drive police station in south Mumbai, all three of them had not placed accounts before the BCCI working committee, and had connived with Dalmiya to siphon-off funds.

Lawyers Sayaji Nangre and Satish Maneshinde raised the matter before Justice VM Kanade who decided to hear the petition in the post-lunch session. The court had yesterday granted interim protection from arrest to Dalmiya who had also sought anticipatory bail. The court will hear Dalmiya's plea on March 23.