The Chennai Police have detained one more person in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal. As more arrests and detentions in the case come, the government is mulling a law to curb fixing in cricket and other sports. Law Minister Kapil Sibal has said there should be a law to make fixing a criminal offence. ...
11:46 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police claim they have evidence to prove that another attempt was made by Sreesanth to spot-fix an IPL game, sources said. Sreesanth made an attempt to spot-fix a Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab match on May 9, sources added. Sreesanth has admitted to this in a taped conversation. He admitted that he bowled a no ball on the last ball, but his attempts to spot-fix the...
11:27 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Exposing the Bollywood connection in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, police on Tuesday arrested actor Vindoo Dara Singh for his alleged links with the betting mafia even as three players and seven bookies, accused of spot-fixing, were sent to five-day police custody. A hawala operator Aplesh Patel was also arrested along with Vindoo on a day when police recovered expensive clothes and a BlackBerry Z10 from the house of...
09:24 PM, May 21, 2013
Mumbai Police Joint Commissioner Himanshu Roy said that Alpesh Patel could help them find more links between the players and the bookies. ...
07:11 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday remanded three players accused of spot-fixing in IPL to five-day police custody. Apart from the former Rajasthan Players Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, seven bookies were also sent to the police custody for the same time period. Sreesanth, Chandila and Chavan were arrested on May 16 on charges that they spot-fixed certain matches in IPL 6. All three players, along with several...
07:00 PM, May 21, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Vindoo Dara Singh was arrested on Tuesday by the Mumbai Police for links with IPL betting mafia. The actor, who was detained by the Crime branch in Mumbai on Monday night was formally arrested on Tuesday morning. According to sources, arrested bookie Ramesh Vyas named the actor while he was being interrogated in the IPL spot-fixing case. Vindoo, who won season 3 of 'Bigg Boss', has appeared in...
05:14 PM, May 21, 2013
The Chennai Police said that they have recovered Rs 4 lakh cash from bookie Prashant, who was arrested in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal. ...
12:34 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: 6:41 pm: Sahara franchise pulls out from IPL. Sahara owns the Pune Warriors franchise in the Indian Premier League. Pune Warriors is the costliest franchise in IPL. A Sahara statement said: Sahara bought Pune franchise for a record Rs 1702 crore for 10 years. But they currently have dispute regarding the reduction of the franchise fee as initially there were 94 matches which was later reduced to 74...
11:05 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The five-day police custody of the three arrested cricketers - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - and 11 bookies who were arrested last week ends on Tuesday. They will be produced in a Delhi court. Police sources say they will ask for further custody of the three cricketers, and seven of the 11 bookies. Meanwhile, Baburao Yadav, the former Ranji cricketer detained on Monday has been...
09:50 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: More revelations continue to surface in the IPL spot-fixing scandal even as the three arrested cricketers - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - are set to be produced in court later on Tuesday. The Delhi Police has recovered Rs 20 lakh from Ajit Chandela's home while the Mumbai Police has found pictures of Sreesanth with a known bookie. They have also established links between the arrested...
07:53 AM, May 21, 2013
BCCI has failed to check the menace of fixing despite it bringing the game into disrepute repeatedly, especially in the IPL. ...
11:36 PM, May 20, 2013
Rajasthan Royals on Monday suspended the tainted trio of Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal on a day when investigations moved with a breakneck speed and resulted in the detention of one more cricketer, Baburao Yadav, a former Ranji Trophy player. ...
11:07 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals on Monday suspended the tainted trio of Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal on a day when investigations moved with a breakneck speed and resulted in the detention of one more cricketer, Baburao Yadav, a former Ranji Trophy player. Rajasthan Royals cricketers Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan were arrested on May 16 on charges that they spot-fixed certain...
09:38 PM, May 20, 2013
In latest development in the IPL spot-fixing case, Delhi Police have detained former Ranji Trophy player Baburao Yadav from Delhi as investigation moved forward frantically on the last day of the custody of three Rajasthan Royals' players. However, his family has rejected allegations that he was involved in fixing. ...
08:38 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: The Railways on Monday suspended former Ranji Trophy player Baburao Yadav from its Signal and Telecom division after his detention in New Delhi in IPL spot-fixing case. Baburao, who was an operator in the division, joined Railways via sports quota seven years ago. Delhi Police sources have told CNN-IBN that police are current interrogating Baburao, who had introduced alleged bookie Sunil Bhatia to Rajasthan Royals player Ajit Chandila....
08:30 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: As the Rajasthan Royals prepare for the play-offs this week, Ranjit Barthakur - Chairman of Rajasthan frachise - stated that contracts of all three players involved in spot-fixing - Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - have been suspended pending inquiry. "The franchise has been hit very hard across the board and we have executed the strongest possible course of action in keeping with our zero-tolerance approach to...
07:31 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: A day after Law Minister Kapil Sibal proposed a new law to curb fixing menace in sport in the wake of IPL spot-fixing scandal, The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has backed the need of a tougher legislation to control fixing, sources said on Monday. The BCCI will write to the government asking for a new law to help curb fixing, sources added. On Sunday,...
06:33 PM, May 20, 2013
The spot fixing incident in IPL, which has come to light recently, has not only garnered criticism for cricketers Sreeshanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila but have also generated interest among filmmakers to turn the real life story of the cricketers into films. Reportedly, a film is being planned on Sreesanth. Titled as 'Cricket', the Malayalam film is in its initial phase of scripting. Sajan is writing the script and...
06:06 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: The Indian Premier League officials have beefed up the security of four remaining teams in IPL 6 before the play-offs begin on Tuesday, with officers from IPL's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) accompanying each team. The decision to step up the security was taken during BCCI's Working Committee meeting on Sunday. Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings were allotted an ACSU officer each on Monday morning after the...
05:51 PM, May 20, 2013
Cricketnext editor Jamie Alter joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the IPL play-offs and the shadow of spot-fixing. Q. Hi Jamie,Let it be regulated under Govt of India. Your views. Asked by: Samuel A. Hi Samuel, I'm no legal expert by any standard but I will say that I believe the IPL should come under the RTI Act. According to section 2(h) of this, even a non-government organisation comes...
05:23 PM, May 20, 2013
