Some clues against Dalmiya: Police

Kolkata: A Mumbai Police team on Wednesday hinted at having gathered clues against former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Jagmohan Dalmiya in connection in the alleged misappropriation of Rs 21.74 lakh from the 1996 World Cup cricket account.

They added that there were some clues against two other former board officials.

"The investigation is going in the right direction," Sudhir Mahadik, who is heading the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) team from Mumbai Police said after two hours of interrogation of Dalmiya, Kishore Rungta and Jyoti Bajpai.

Rungta and Bajpai are former treasurers of BCCI.

He said, "we are getting them (clues). But we cannot disclose details now."

The initial round of interrogations were conducted at the West Bengal Police CID headquarters, after which the Mumbai Police headed for the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) headquarters located at the Eden Gardens to continue their investigations.

The EOW team was joined during the day by two more officials from Mumbai. The interrogation would continue till Thursday.

The EOW team earlier rejected the request from Dalmiya's lawyer, Tamal Mukherjee, to be present during interrogation.

The interrogation of the former BCCI officials was being conducted as per a directive of the Mumbai High Court.

The Mumbai HC had granted interim relief to Dalmiya and others against arrest after they moved court following a FIR filed by BCCI against them with the Mumbai Police for alleged misapropriation of funds amounting to Rs 21.74 lakh from the account of PILCOM (Pakistan, India, Lanka Committee).

PILCOM was the organising committee of the 1996 World Cup cricket.

Dalmiya and others were earlier interrogated in four sessions at Mumbai last month.

The court had directed the three to appear before the EOW in Mumbai for four days and subsequently for two days in Kolkata.

The current regime in BCCI headed by Sharad Pawar had filed an FIR at the Marine Drive Police Station, but later the case was transferred to the EOW as it was related to alleged economic fraud.

The case was filed under sections 406 and 408 (misappropriation), section 420 (cheating), sections 465 and 467 (falsifying documents) and section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC.