Jagmohan Dalmiya claims damages from Delhi cricket official (5 Nov 1997)
Last Saturday Jagmohan Dalmiya, International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman, served a lawyers notice on the Delhi Cricket Association sports secretary, Sunil Dev for making ``false, malicious and defamatory aspersions'' against him and claimed Rs
05-Nov-1997
5 November 1997
Jagmohan Dalmiya claims damages from Delhi cricket official
Upali Rupasinghe in New Delhi
Last Saturday Jagmohan Dalmiya, International Cricket Council
(ICC) chairman, served a lawyers notice on the Delhi Cricket
Association sports secretary, Sunil Dev for making ``false,
malicious and defamatory aspersions'' against him and claimed
Rs. 150 million in damages.
On Monday, Sunil Dev served a counter legal notice on Dalmiya
challenging the ICC presidents' ``false and motivated''
accusations.
In a four-page letter, Sunil Dev has demanded an unqualified
apology from Dalmiya within 48 hours and also Rs. 240 million
within a week for internationally damaging his reputation,
goodwill and prestige.
Dev asserted that the ICC president was raking up old and
baseless issues on the eve of the Board of Cricket Control in
India (BCCI) elections to damage his image and undermine his
prospects.
Dev, is expected to contest for the post of Board Secretary and
wrest power from the group supported by Dalmiya. ``Dalmiya is
acting as an election agent of my opponents,'' Dev charged.
The `trouble' started between the two when Sunil Dev had alleged
that Dalmiya was involved in business deals with India's
national television network - Doordharshan and WorldTel during
the Independence Cup in May this year. The former BCCI secretary
had refuted the charges last week and called upon Dev to prove
them.
In a counter charge Dalmiya alleged that Dev had withheld
earnings from advertisements on the drinks trolley during the
1989 Nehru Centenary Cup.
Dev. in his letter to Dalmiya said that the only reason for
raising these baseless issues, that too pertaining to a
tournament held eight years ago, was to damage his elections
prospects. Referring to another point raised by Mr. Dalmiya, Mr.
Dev said, ``I had suggested in March 1997 that there should be
more transparency in awarding huge commercial contracts by BCCI.
That demand still remains.''
Source :: Daily News (https://www.lanka.net)