Mumbai/Kolkata, Mar 24 Three years after he was voted out of the BCCI, former Cricket Board chief Jagmohan Dalmiya faced charges of misappropriation of Rs 2.90 crore over which the Mumbai Police will be filing a chargesheet on Wednesday.

Acting on a case filed by the BCCI in March 2006 after Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar took over as head of the game's governing body, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has found that Dalmiya diverted funds meant for legal fees towards other expenses, including paying for personal phone bills.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said today that Indian Income Tax authorities had slapped 64 cases on PILCOM's account operated from London. PILCOM was the organising committee of the 1996 Cricket World Cup hosted jointly by Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka.

The crime branch will be filing a chargesheet against Dalmiya, Gautam Dutta and K M Choudhary in the matter on Wednesday in a local court, he said.

Dalmiya termed the move to file a chargesheet against him by the Mumbai Police as an off-shoot of "the old game plan of my adversaries".

"Whenever something happens in cricket politics, they resort to such action to settle scores with me," the seasoned cricket administrator told PTI in Kolkata, apparently refering to his presence at a Cricket Association of Bengal Special General Meeting last month. (Agencies)