Wednesday, March 8 2006 17:47 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kolkata: Former BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya today (Mar 08 2006) got a reprieve when a city court stayed the show cause notice issued to him by the BCCI for alleged irregularities with regard to the accounts of the 1996 World Cup cricket.

Prabir Kumar Sarkar, sixth judge of the city civil and sessions court, restrained the BCCI from giving effect to their show cause notice dated February 27 till disposal of the injunction application made by Dalmiya challenging the notice.

BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah had issued a three-page show cause to Dalmiya asking him to explain within 15 days why appropriate action should not be taken against him for 'irregularities' pertaining to PILCOM (Pakistan, India, Lanka Committee), which had organised the 1996 World Cup, transactions.