India cricket board faces charges

The court ruling is a victory for Mr Dalmiya

The High Court in the Indian city of Calcutta has ordered criminal proceedings against senior officials on Indian cricket's governing body.

The court says six top officials from the Board of Control for Cricket in India should face perjury charges.

They are alleged to have given false evidence against a former board member, Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was expelled in 2006 accused of finance irregularities.

Mr Dalmiya is currently engaged in a bitter legal battle with the board.

It argues that he was expelled under new rules framed by the body and that those rules were properly registered.

But he filed a counter case which stated that the rules had not been registered as claimed, and therefore his expulsion was invalid.

The High Court ruled that the six officials had committed perjury and submitted a false affidavit.

The president of the board, Sharad Pawar, who is one of the six, said they were consulting lawyers and could not comment on the case.