Calcutta: Till the other day, interest in the CAB annual general meeting (read: elections) centred around the High Court verdict on the Jagmohan Dalmiya case. The verdict is still awaited, but another development could help the former CAB president’s group gain some more time to formulate strategy in a bid to win the battle against Prasun Mukherjee.

Following an error in the AGM notice, dated July 6, the CAB may be forced to postpone the meeting if anyone moves court.

The notice, signed by joint secretaries Saradindu Pal and Amitava Banerjee, stated that the annual accounts of “2007-08” will be placed on July 28 (the scheduled day of the AGM). It should obviously have read 2006-07.

A corrigendum was issued by the CAB eight days later. But that may not be enough to prevent someone from raising an objection as, according to the CAB rules, there has to be a clear 14 days between the issue of the notice and the AGM date. From the day the corrigendum was issued, 13 days remained for the AGM.

Given the fact that people have been moving court frequently, it’s very much probable something similar will happen in this case as well.

Pal refused to own up. “That’s a printing mistake and has been corrected,” Pal said.

Another official rued the mistake and admitted that it had landed the CAB in a spot of bother.

“If someone moves court, the AGM may be delayed. An emergent working committee meeting has to be then called to announce a fresh date,” he said.

The CAB president, while acknowledging that the error could have a repercussion on the AGM date, added that it wouldn’t be a problem. “I had called a meeting to discuss the matter… One has to be cautious. Some people always like to create trouble. But there’s absolutely no problem,” said Mukherjee.

He denied it was a mistake on the CAB’s part. “It was a typographical error. It’s common sense that it should have been 2006-07 and not 2007-08.”

Meanwhile, Mukherjee filed his nomination for the president’s post on Monday. The city police commissioner filed his papers as a nominee of the Calcutta Police Club.

Indranath Dey also filed papers for the post of vice-president.