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Indian Premier League (IPL) team the Rajasthan Royals is seeking $30m in damages from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to compensate it for its summary expulsion from the league last October.

The franchise has written to the BCCI and the arbitrator Justice Srikrishna, who is hearing the case between the two parties, arguing that its unilateral termination, and the court cases that followed, have hurt its reputation and caused a loss of revenue, for which it should be compensated.

"This is all part of the arbitration process," a franchise official told Cricinfo, explaining that Justice Srikrishna had asked Rajasthan what outcome it was seeking from the process, and will now go to the board and ask for a response.

Srikrishna has already issued an interim stay order on the expulsion, allowing Rajasthan to take part in the player auction earlier this month and to compete in the 2011 tournament that begins in April.

The BCCI challenged the decision in the Bombay High Court, which upheld the arbitrator's ruling. However, a final decision on the expulsion will only be issued after Srikrishna has completed his review of the case.

Rajasthan's IPL affiliation was terminated by the BCCI on October 10 on charges of transgression of shareholding and ownership norms that threatened to "shake the very foundation of the tender process", as the notice put it.

The two sides then decided to settle their dispute over the termination through arbitration on November 15 after Rajasthan had filed a case in the High Court challenging the board's decision to take the step unilaterally.